Vocabulary
Defunct
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
no longer existing or functioning.
Urdu meaning
خراب ٹوٹا پھوٹا شکستہ برباد
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- As if we needed it, the effort to revive a defunct project is proof that our rulers are not capable of thinking beyond brick-and-mortar solutions to our worsening climate challenges.
- Iran was seen as the only obstacle, or let`s say, irritant, with its now more or less defunct Axis of Resistance, and needed to be brushed out of the way.
- The first two have been written by the former General Secretary of the defunct National Awami Party, Mr Ajmal Khattak, now in Afghanistan.
- in the Bangladeshi situation and the Pakistani situation, between what has happened or is still happening in Bangladesh and banning of the now defunct National Awami Party in Pakistan.
- News now abounds that the Pakistan Steel Mills (Pasmic) a defunct monument to avarice and incompetence is being resurrected with Russian help.
Synonyms
disused, no longer in use, unused, inoperative, non-functioning, unusable, obsolete, no longer in existence
Curator example
“the now defunct Somerset & Dorset railway line”
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