Crossword-Solution: DEFUNCT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Defunct | a. | Having finished the course of life; dead; deceased. |
| Defunct | n. | A dead person; one deceased. |
We have 72 clues for the answer “DEFUNCT”
| Clue | Answers |
|---|---|
| no longer in force or use | 1 answer |
| no longer existing or operative | 1 answer |
| in use Longer | 1 answer |
| Status of TWA and Pan Am | 1 answer |
| No longer operative | 1 answer |
| No longer in working order | 1 answer |
| No longer alive | 2 answers |
| NO longer existing | 3 answers |
| Not in use | 5 answers |
| No longer in effect | 5 answers |
| having no existence | 5 answers |
| exanimate | 6 answers |
| No longer working | 7 answers |
| No longer in use | 7 answers |
| slaughtered | 18 answers |
| butchered | 18 answers |
| Assassinated | 19 answers |
| slain | 19 answers |
| annihilated | 20 answers |
| murdered | 20 answers |
| Obsolescent | 22 answers |
| Killed | 22 answers |
| Done for | 24 answers |
| Kaput | 28 answers |
| Not working | 34 answers |
| Slew | 40 answers |
| irreplaceable | 41 answers |
| misused | 42 answers |
| forfeited | 42 answers |
| Dissipated | 43 answers |
| misappropriated | 43 answers |
| used up | 46 answers |
| casualty | 46 answers |
| Battered | 46 answers |
| Ravaged | 46 answers |
| Squandered | 47 answers |
| dispersed | 48 answers |
| shattered | 49 answers |
| Passed | 50 answers |
| MORE ancient | 50 answers |
| extinct | 51 answers |
| Asleep | 53 answers |
| CRUSHED ___ | 53 answers |
| insolvent | 54 answers |
| burned | 54 answers |
| depleted | 55 answers |
| expired | 58 answers |
| Departed | 58 answers |
| Spent | 59 answers |
| Consumed | 61 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ERTAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with DEFUNCT (5)
The earliest riser, coming forth in the dim twilight, would perceive a vaguely-defined figure aloft on the place of shame; and half-crazed betwixt alarm and curiosity, would go knocking from door to door, summoning all the people to behold the ghost—as he needs must think it—of some defunct transgressor.
The word apparently originated (at least with this definition) on the MECC Timeshare System (MTS, a now-defunct educational time-sharing system running in Minnesota during the 1970s and the early 1980s) but was later sighted on early UNIX systems.
The brother and sister departed, and left Judge Pyncheon sitting in the old home of his forefathers, all by himself; so heavy and lumpish that we can liken him to nothing better than a defunct nightmare, which had perished in the midst of its wickedness, and left its flabby corpse on the breast of the tormented one, to be gotten rid of as it might! XVII.
Why, man, you can take a defunct that you couldn't _give _away; and get your embamming traps around you and go to work; and in a couple of hours he is worth a cool six hundred--that's what _he's_ worth.
They thought of all the affection they would have lavished on the defunct if they had known the end was so near.
Quotes with DEFUNCT (3)
On March 12, 2015, the AIM Development Company, that deals in scrap metal, met to discuss demolishing the now defunct Verso Paper Mill in Bucksport, located at the head of Penobscot Bay. The paper mill was first built by the Maine Seaboard Paper Company in 1930. Demolition of the mill is expected to be completed in 2016. However, company representatives and town officials did not discuss what AIM might do with the 250-acre waterfront site once the demolition work is complete.…
The name Atlantis came from an old book Victoria had never read. A lifetime residency in the ASM paradise was rumored to cost anywhere from 15 to 20 million dollars. The rich and powerful lived under the dome because they considered themselves separate and superior. Few of them left the comfort and security of Atlantis. To them the outside world was weak. Second Sector citizens where miscreant dregs of a defunct society. In order to enter the Atlantian dome one first had to b…
Everyone knew the Hans Christian Andersen fairytale about the Sandman and how he brought sweet dreams to sleepers. An early, now-defunct Reve company had even used him as their mascot. But that's all the Sandman had been - a mascot. A little grinning elf holding an hourglass.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, NYT, Universal, WP, WSJ.
Used 11 times in crossword archives (2000–2025).