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no longer in force; or having ceased to exist or live

Jimmy's [codename] was Thickney, after a defunct Australian double-jointed bird that used to hang around in cemeteries, and...
Margaret Atwood -- Oryx and Crake

defunct = having ceased to exist

His head leaned back so far that it rested against the face of a defunct mantelpiece clock, and from this position his distraught eyes stared down at Daisy, who was sitting, frightened but graceful, on the edge of a stiff chair.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- The Great Gatsby

defunct = broken

He searched the Web for the HottTotts site, hoping that something familiar would help him to feel less isolated, but it was defunct.
Margaret Atwood -- Oryx and Crake
It took him a moment, but then he remembered it: the boring Web interactive with all those defunct animals and plants.
Margaret Atwood -- Oryx and Crake
Perhaps it's a crocodile, escaped from a defunct Cuban handbag farm and working its way north along the shore.
Margaret Atwood -- Oryx and Crake
Not to mention some arm-twisting — Jimmy suspected — on the part of his dad, who'd known the Martha Graham president from their long-defunct mutual summer camp and probably had the dirt on him.
Margaret Atwood -- Oryx and Crake
Also, to set the queasy at ease, it was claimed that none of the defunct pigoons ended up as bacon and sausages: no one would want to eat an animal whose cells might be identical with at least some of their own.
Margaret Atwood -- Oryx and Crake
They thought of all the affection they would have lavished on the defunct if they had known the end was so near.
W. Somerset Maugham -- Of Human Bondage
The show is held in a small defunct supermarket, west on Bloor Street.
Margaret Atwood -- Cat's Eye
There is no such unwholesome atmosphere as that of an old home, rendered poisonous by one's defunct forefathers and relatives.
Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The House of the Seven Gables
He is a deceased man—defunct in understanding.
Jane Austen -- Northanger Abbey
Pascal had a kilo of sugar cane and a defunct World War II handgun in his backpack.
Barbara Kingsolver -- The Poisonwood Bible
And I somehow rigged up two of my chem lights, which glow when you break them in half, and fixed them to the defunct radio wires.
Marcus Luttrell -- Lone Survivor
It was a small, stuffy, defunct room, of mahogany, and deathly enlargements of photographs of departed people done in carbon.
D.H. Lawrence -- Sons and Lovers
Soon, all three of us were decked out like walking advertisements for the defunct theme park.
Rick Riordan -- The Lightning Thief
The awning must have been there back then, already a relic of a defunct store, but Deo said he didn't remember it.
Tracy Kidder -- Strength in What Remains
The sea fisheries were defunct several years ago; the few fish they have now are from fish farms, and taste muddy.
Margaret Atwood -- The Handmaid's Tale
To take on temporarily those necessary functions of the defunct Authority I have asked the General Manager of LuNoHo Company to serve.
Robert A. Heinlein -- The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
But they're already dead, defunct.
Ralph Ellison -- Invisible Man
A strange thing has happened to a scion of our defunct aristocracy.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- The Idiot

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