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no longer in force; or having ceased to exist or live- Jimmy's [codename] was Thickney, after a defunct Australian double-jointed bird that used to hang around in cemeteries,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
- 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
- A truce to threnes and trentals and jeremies and all such congenital defunctive music!James Joyce -- Ulysses
- 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
defunct = broken