All 6 Uses of
defunct
in
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.†
p. 23..9
- Jimmy's [codename] was Thickney, after a defunct Australian double-jointed bird that used to hang around in cemeteries, and...
p. 81..6 *defunct = having ceased to exist
- Perhaps it's a crocodile, escaped from a defunct Cuban handbag farm and working its way north along the shore.†
p. 105..5
- 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.†
p. 174..9
- It took him a moment, but then he remembered it: the boring Web interactive with all those defunct animals and plants.†
p. 214..2
- He searched the Web for the HottTotts site, hoping that something familiar would help him to feel less isolated, but it was defunct.†
p. 260..0
Definition:
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(defunct) no longer in force; or having ceased to exist or live