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dead set

Word definitions for dead set in dictionaries

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Dead Set is a live album by the Grateful Dead . It was released in August 1981 on Arista . The album contains live material recorded between September and October 1980 at the Warfield Theatre in San Francisco and Radio City Music Hall in New York. Original ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. fixed in your purpose; "bent on going to the theater"; "dead set against intervening"; "out to win every event" [syn: bent , bent on(p) , dead set(p) , intent on(p) , out to(p) ]

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dead \Dead\ (d[e^]d), a. [OE. ded, dead, deed, AS. de['a]d; akin to OS. d[=o]d, D. dood, G. todt, tot, Icel. dau[eth]r, Sw. & Dan. d["o]d, Goth. daubs; prop. p. p. of an old verb meaning to die. See Die , and cf. Death .] Deprived of life; -- opposed ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. unswervingly dedicated; resolutely determined alt. 1 (context hunting English) The rigid pose a hunting dog assumes when pointing out game to a hunter. 2 A fixed or stationary condition arising from obstacle or hindrance; a deadlock. 3 (context figuratively ...

Usage examples of dead set.

A nurse was helping her dress right now, and Sam was dead set on having her out of the hospital immediately.

She led a cabal dead set against handing the Ku anything but his head.

You did what you did back then, but here you are, leading a government that's dead set against the kind of change you say you always wanted.

I was approached by other leaders who are dead set against this treaty renewal—.

He was a generation older than his companions and dead set against any alliance of convenience.