Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

English Dictionary · 107,383 entries · Sources & licences

defunct

/dɪˈfʌŋkt/ adjective, verb, noun

Forms defuncts defuncting defuncted

  1. adjective No longer in use or active, nor expected to be again.
  2. adjective (business) No longer in business or service, nor expected to be again; out of business.
  3. adjective (computing) Specifically, of a process: having terminated but not having been reaped (by its parent or an inheritor), and thus still occupying a process slot. See also zombie, zombie process.
  4. adjective (linguistics) (of a language) No longer spoken.
  5. adjective (now rare) Deceased, dead.
  6. verb To make defunct.
  7. noun The dead person (referred to).

Synonyms

antiquated disused outdated anachronistic antediluvial antediluvian antique archaic backward backwards behind the times cobwebbed cobwebby dated desuete discontinued dootsie elderly extinct expired

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin dēfunctus, past participle of dēfungor (“to finish, discharge”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. participle Having finished the course of life; dead; deceased. "Defunct organs." Shak.
  2. noun A dead person; one deceased.

Etymology [L. defunctus, p. p. of defungi to acquit one's self of, to perform, finish, depart, die; de + fungi to perform, discharge: cf. F. défunt. See Function.]

Sources: Wiktionary · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “defunct”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “defunct” (best matches first).