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adjective (comparative dead·er, superlative dead·est) |
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1. no longer alive: having passed from the living state to being no longer alive
  a dead bird
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2. inanimate: never having been alive and having none of the characteristics of a living thing
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3. without living things: having no living things, or unable to support life
a dead planet
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4. without physical sensation: having lost normal sensitivity to touch or pain, e.g. from the effects of cold, disease, or anesthesia
My fingers have gone completely dead.
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5. insensitive: unable or unwilling to respond to, understand, or appreciate something
She seemed completely dead to her surroundings.
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6. lacking any signs of life: showing little indication of feeling or vitality
His eyes were dead.
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7. like corpse: having the appearance of a dead person
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8. lacking activity or interest: without human activity or anything interesting or entertaining
This town is dead after seven o'clock at night.
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9. no longer current: no longer in use, or no longer relevant, appropriate, or important
That issue is now dead, despite attempts to revive it.
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10. broken down: no longer able to operate because of a fault, breakdown, or loss of power
The phone went dead.
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11. not burning: no longer burning or able to burn
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12. nonresonant: not resonant or producing sounds that are not resonant
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13. total: sudden, abrupt, and complete
came to a dead stop in the middle of the road
There was a dead silence for a few seconds.
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14. exact: precise or exact in position or character
dead center
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15. exhausted: very tired or completely without energy
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16. doomed: certain to face a very unpleasant fate
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If I don't get this report in by tomorrow, I'm dead.
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17. with no return: producing or yielding no return
dead capital
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18. sports out of play: in some sports, used to describe a ball that has crossed the boundary of the playing area
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19. golf landing close to golf hole: in golf, used to describe a shot in which the ball comes to rest so close to the hole that the next shot cannot miss
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dead people: people who have died or been killed
respect for the dead
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1. precisely: emphasizes that an approximate-sounding description or instruction, e.g. concerning a time, a position, or a straight line, is in fact precise or to be followed precisely
Keep going dead ahead for another 300 yards.
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2. entirely: completely or absolutely
You can be dead sure that he won't make the same mistake again.
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3. with suddenness: abruptly or immediately
stopped dead in her tracks
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| [ Old English dēad<Germanic, "died"] |
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| dead·ness noun |
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the dead of night or winter the most extreme point of night or winter
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dead, deceased, departed, late, lifeless, defunct, extinct
CORE MEANING: no longer living, functioning, or in existence
dead having passed from the living state to being no longer alive;
He was dead before his body hit the floor.
A father of four was shot dead by soldiers last night.
The dead fox had been hit on the road and run over.
deceased (formal, of people only, especially in legal or other technical contexts, or as a euphemism) no longer living;
the heirs of a deceased partner
His grandmother, now deceased, came from Glasgow.
departed (literary, restricted to people) no longer living;
sweet departed spirit
the soul of our dear brother here departed
late (of people) having died recently or within living memory;
the late Iranian leader Ayatollah Khomeini
lifeless not living, or apparently not living;
She lay lifeless in the snow.
They found the baby cold and seemingly lifeless.
defunct no longer operative, valid, or functional, or no longer in existence;
attempts to revive a defunct ceasefire
former editor-in-chief of a now defunct newspaper
extinct no longer in existence, or no longer active;
an animal that was declared extinct in 1936
small houses clinging to the lower slopes of extinct volcanoes |
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