Defunct vs Debunked - What's the difference?
defunct | debunked |
Deceased, dead.
* Shakespeare
* Byron
No longer in use, inactive.
(computing) Specifically, of a program: that has terminated but is still shown in the list of processes because the parent process that created it is still running and has not yet reaped it. See also zombie, zombie process.
(business) No longer in business or service.
The dead person (referred to).
* 1817 September , in Blackwood's Edinburgh magazine , volume 1, page 617:
(debunk)
To discredit, or expose to ridicule the falsehood or the exaggerated claims of something
As verbs the difference between defunct and debunked
is that defunct is to make defunct while debunked is (debunk).As an adjective defunct
is deceased, dead.As a noun defunct
is the dead person (referred to).defunct
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- defunct organs
- The boar, defunct , lay tripped up, near.
Noun
debunked
English
Verb
(head)debunk
English
Verb
(en verb)- Sailing round the world debunked the theory that the earth was flat.
- Debunking the myth of the American West.
- That bullshit has already been debunked .
- A myth that has long been debunked .
- The explosion story was thoroughly debunked on National Public Radio in November 1999.