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Answer for the clue "Sentence the French said initially for dead ", 8 letters:
lifeless

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Word definitions for lifeless in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 inanimate; having no life 2 dead; having lost life 3 uninhabited, or incapable of supporting life 4 dull or lacking vitality 5 departed

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lifeless \Life"less\, a. Destitute of life, or deprived of life; not containing, or inhabited by, living beings or vegetation; dead, or apparently dead; spiritless; powerless; dull; as, a lifeless carcass; lifeless matter; a lifeless desert; a lifeless ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Lifeless is a TV series about life after a global pandemic destroys most of the life on Earth.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. deprived of life; no longer living; "a lifeless body" [syn: exanimate ] destitute or having been emptied of life or living beings; "after the dance the littered and lifeless ballroom echoed hollowly" lacking animation or excitement or activity; "the ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN body ▪ Every day she visited his bedside to chat and search for signs of response in his lifeless body . ▪ Whiplash's head rolled away from her lifeless body , mouth contorted in a hideous grin. ▪ His lifeless body ...

Usage examples of lifeless.

The shade, the windless silence, the stillness of lifeless plain and birdless sky were such a relief that for a few minutes, none of them spoke.

Lifeless black eyes stared back at Khamisi, too wide, appearing frozen in fright.

It is far too easy to be blindsided in this seemingly empty and lifeless desert.

The lifeless optelectronic brains of the berserkers never blundered, but sometimes they were forced to make decisions based on inadequate information.

They usually blundered around in the area between the fences until the early morning sun or an SO-17 flame-thrower reduced their lifeless husk to a cinder, and released the tormented soul to make its way through eternity in peace.

A calculating gleam grew in his eyes as he considered the weapons at hand, and he began to relish the thought of the bondsman sprawled lifeless in a heap.

The simian Cabalist continued to wrestle with the lifeless reptile until he realized Deidre had ended his fun.

Was this how her mother had felt before she had become a lifeless caracature of a woman?

Another frantic slave-child was ejected upwards from the scrum by the door, screaming until it slapped into the ceiling and dropped lifeless to the slowly tilting deck.

The patrician Photius, perhaps, alone was resolved to live and to die like his ancestors: he enfranchised himself with the stroke of a dagger, and left his tyrant the poor consolation of exposing with ignominy the lifeless corpse of the fugitive.

It took Rennell a few seconds to grasp it, his grip as lifeless as his fleeting look at Carlo.

It consists of one barely habitable inhabited planet, dozens of lifeless star systems, some fluky subspace readings that are probably just instrumentation errors, and about sixty-six thousand cubic parsecs of otherwise extraordinarily uninteresting space.

Grabbing the gladius from lifeless fingers, he leaped to his feet and charged a Roman who was pulling his sword out of a fallen clansman.

Blade and casque shivered together, and Gromel rolled lifeless on the floor.

Blade and casque shivered together and Gromel rolled lifeless on the floor.