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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
dead
I.adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a dead language (=a language that is no longer spoken)
▪ She didn’t see the point of learning a dead language.
a dead leaf
▪ The ground beneath the tree was covered in dead leaves.
a living/dead cell
▪ Every living cell has a nucleus.
as good as dead/ruined/useless etc
▪ This carpet’s as good as ruined.
be a clear/dead giveaway (=make it very easy to guess something)
▪ He’d been smoking dope; his glazed eyes were a dead giveaway.
be in dead/deadly/complete earnest
▪ Although he smiled, Ashley knew he was in deadly earnest.
be presumed dead/innocent etc
▪ Their nephew was missing, presumed dead.
certify sb deadBritish English (= when a doctor says officially that a person is dead)
▪ The driver was certified dead at the scene.
come to/reach a dead end
▪ The negotiations have reached a dead end.
dead beat
▪ Come and sit down – you must be dead beat.
dead calm
▪ The seas were dead calm.
dead duck
▪ He admitted that the whole project was a dead duck.
dead end
▪ The negotiations have reached a dead end.
dead heat
dead letter
dead luckyinformal (= very lucky)
▪ I was dead lucky to find a parking space right away.
dead reckoning
dead rightinformal (= completely correct, used for emphasis)
▪ You were dead right not to trust him.
dead ringer
▪ Dave’s a dead ringer for Paul McCartney.
dead set (=completely determined)
▪ The government’s dead set against the plan.
dead silence (=complete silence)
▪ There was a gasp from Peter and then a dead silence.
dead straight (=completely straight)
▪ The road was dead straight.
dead wood
dead
▪ There were dead flowers in a vase of green water.
dead/incredibly/terribly etc boring (=very boring)
drop dead date
feared dead
▪ Hundreds of people are feared dead in the ferry disaster.
in a (dead) faint
▪ She fell down in a faint.
in/at the dead of nightliterary (= in the middle of the night when it is quiet)
▪ He drove through the countryside in the dead of night.
leave sb for dead
▪ The girl had been attacked and left for dead.
playing dead
▪ Some snakes fool predators by playing dead.
shot dead
▪ A woman was shot dead in an attempted robbery.
stone dead
▪ The wrong music can kill a commercial stone dead.
stop dead/short/in your tracks (=stop walking suddenly)
▪ Sally saw the ambulance and stopped short.
straight/dead ahead (=straight in front)
▪ The river is eight miles away dead ahead.
the line went dead (=suddenly stopped working completely)
▪ There was a click, then the line went dead.
the phone goes/is dead (=the phone line stops working or is not working)
▪ Before he could reply, the phone suddenly went dead.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
already
▪ Among genres long since completed and inpart already dead, the novel is the only developing genre.
▪ On the contrary, if that is where it has to be read, the symbol is already dead.
▪ As far as we can tell all other compartments are flooded, which means that anyone behind those doors is already dead.
▪ Eight years after the mill closed, hundreds were already dead.
▪ There is no doubt that the ventilator may be turned off when in fact, the patient is already dead.
▪ She imagines killing him, but when she finds him he is already dead, his heart having given away.
▪ Beside her lay the body of the boy Francis Joseph Hegarty, who was already dead.
▪ The red spruce decline was continuing though it was statistically leveling off, since most of the spruce were already dead.
long
▪ Happily, the urge to commit suicide was itself long dead, buried beneath her need for revenge.
▪ The beetles are long dead now, but their larvae live on.
▪ Grandmama was long dead, and Morland Place now belonged to Uncle James.
▪ Next his child appeared, then others long dead.
▪ With Archbishop Courtenay long dead, there was no one from a greater world to consider.
▪ There was a dried-up riverbed not far away, and along its banks were the skeletons of trees long dead.
▪ Except that it was dead as well, long dead, and blind and rotting.
now
▪ Two of the Six were now dead, but there were always two men watching the King.
▪ Chief Inspector, you're talking as if everyone in that car is now dead.
▪ From the text it is not clear whether or not the father is still alive or is now dead.
▪ Beings who were now dead or dying, and who were lying in tangled, dreadfully mutilated heaps.
▪ He's now dead, but Wright and Round has ensured his music will live on by publishing the piece.
▪ Many are now dead, but their survivors want compensation and an apology.
▪ It was all centred on a man who was now dead, a man who had cast her aside long ago.
■ NOUN
animal
▪ Edinburgh ensures me that no wild animals are caught to replace dead animals.
▪ A dead body smells exactly the same as a dead animal.
▪ Perhaps if I looked further under the bed I would find small dead animals.
▪ The axles of the cart were greased with the fat of dead animals.
▪ But in the end, I learnt how to use the fat of dead animals to make a light.
▪ I learnt to make new clothes for myself from the skins of dead animals.
▪ They also witnessed various nauseating sights including a car piled high with dead animals.
▪ I gave them the meat of the dead animal, and they gave us more food and water.
body
▪ Her dead body wears the smile of accomplishment.
▪ A dead body smells exactly the same as a dead animal.
▪ My sister's dead body was carried slowly out of the house and through the village, followed by all of us.
▪ A dead body is liable to do that.
▪ The tide was setting in and the thing came nearer and nearer until she knew it was a dead body.
▪ Royal Humane Society, founded in 1774 for the rescue of persons from drowning, and the recovery of dead bodies.
▪ Because often their parents would make them go and kiss the dead body.
end
▪ Like the precise astronomical observations of the Maya, these technical achievements proved to be a dead end.
▪ This was a dead end for me.
▪ It's a dead end isn't it.
▪ But it is at a dead end now.
▪ A sublime, monumental dead end, that has produced some brilliant sado-masochist poetry from band and critic alike.
▪ He thinks they have reached an evolutionary dead end.
▪ And being a dead end, the alley led to nowhere else.
▪ But essentially I was moving away from dead ends more than being drawn toward children.
hand
▪ His dead hand he arranged, in a careful imitation of life, on his knee.
▪ Then there was Marta from Spartanburg, who was fleeing the dead hand of middle-class rectitude.
▪ It isn't about the dead hand of the past, the unsettled guilt-edged accounts of history returning to haunt the present.
▪ The core of the neoliberal argument is the need to free enterprise and initiative from the dead hand of the state.
▪ Such a move would reimpose the dead hand of state control and political interference.
▪ The main problem is the dead hand of local authorities, which keep tens of thousands of properties empty.
▪ State legislatures and Congress are no longer gripped as they once were by the dead hand of privilege.
▪ It was a dead hand, waving a tiny, posthumous good-bye.
heat
▪ The trucks bound across the finish in almost a dead heat -- but it is a bad race for both.
▪ We play for about 40 minutes to a dead heat at game point.
▪ If you look merely at voting margins, there is a dead heat.
▪ Phil Gramm finished in a dead heat with front-runner Bob Dole.
▪ Last year the Florida race was, in effect, a dead heat.
▪ Among non-religious-right voters, the race for governor was a dead heat.
leave
▪ Gullies often become blocked by dead leaves and small stones which fall through the grating.
▪ It looks like a pile of dead leaves in there.
▪ The other nine songs on the album however, rustle past your ears like dead leaves.
▪ He played an almost extinct worm crawling through dead leaves.
▪ Are there any dead leaves on the ground which will tell us the kind of leaf which will soon clothe the tree?
▪ As her mouth opened to gasp her shock it filled with snow and dead leaves.
▪ Do they prefer fresh leaves or dead leaves?
▪ My face was on dead leaves and dried grass and pieces of twig.
letter
▪ Theoretical reasoning is a dead letter to the child unless it is closely anchored to practical issues.
▪ But these dead letters troubled him, physically even, because they were only beginnings.
▪ I take messages and leave them in a dead letter box.
▪ The fact that the postwar treaty had been a dead letter for many years did not worry either party.
man
▪ I recall... the shocking distension and protrusion of the eyeballs of dead men and dead horses.
▪ But dead men paid no ransoms.
▪ I think they did it glumly, without hope: as if they knew they were dead men.
▪ Not so to the young sons of the dead men.
▪ It was hinged on top and it swung back, and I caught the scent of the dead man in the bathtub.
people
▪ In my dreams, memories of dead People rise up.
▪ Accusations of election fraud, from ballots cast for dead people to double-voting, are as old as democracy itself.
▪ Sometimes he wondered how many dead people there were to a cloud.
▪ B was running as close to unopposed as a ballot measure can be without the other side being run by dead people.
▪ How many dead people came down with the rain.
▪ On the mantelpiece she displayed photographs of dead people, propped up in their coffins, looking glum.
▪ She recognised a few faces from Amelia's party, but most of the dead people were strangers.
▪ And, finally, what do dead people do all day long?
person
▪ They list the name of the dead person and the years they were born and died.
▪ Miss Diedra was now nothing more than a dead person who seemed, incidentally, to be alive.
▪ No dead persons to be buried not thrown in the swamps.
▪ The act of eating a dead person destroys the integrity of visible bodies.
▪ We may think we see the dead person walking down the street, or hear them calling our name.
▪ The cremation ritual was directed mainly at inducing the spirit of the dead person to go on to the afterworld.
▪ I grieved over one dead person and one dying person and I encouraged one to quit smoking.
▪ I put my hands over my eyes to shut out my fears: I'd never seen a dead person before.
woman
▪ When I looked at the dead woman, instead of feeling sorry for her, I envied her.
▪ Quickly the two apply a massive transfusion of blood which gradually brings back to the dead woman some manifestations of life.
▪ She wouldn't be seeing any dead women getting out of their rocking chairs.
▪ For a long while after that first day, I could not live with the dead woman and her possessions.
▪ It emerged after the trial that the dead woman was the daughter of one of Britain's top psychiatrists.
▪ Maybe the dead woman had brought on the darkness in retaliation for my lack of respect.
wood
▪ Cut out the dead wood so that the young new wood can grow and develop.
▪ Check for dead wood by scratching the bark with your fingernail.
▪ Basically we looked at dead wood!
▪ And the potential for catastrophic wildfires is very high because of so much dead wood on the forest floor.
▪ He was working in a thicket of briar, elder and dead wood from a fallen tree.
▪ In his frustration, Doug picked up a piece of dead wood and flung it as far as he could.
▪ There's definitely a case for decriminalising the removal of dead wood.
▪ These would originally have been topped with a fence of dead wood or a live hedge to keep the animals out.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(as) dead as a dodo
▪ I wrote back, Paz said, I told him, Dada dead as dodo eat your hat.
▪ The campaign was as dead as a dodo.
(as) dead as a doornail
▪ If looks could kill, Dooley Barlowe would have dropped him right there, dead as a doornail.
▪ She looked dead as a doornail.
▪ There we were, messing around with his things, and all the time he was dead as a doornail in Paris.
a dead duck
▪ If he's not here on time, he's a dead duck.
▪ The news program was once considered a dead duck.
be a (dead) cert
▪ I knew my sons had been saying that of course Mum would cry - it was a dead cert!
▪ No, this was a dead cert.
▪ One candidate, the outgoing Taoiseach and the then leader of Fine Gael, was a cert.
be flogging a dead horse
▪ If something is carried on then it is flogging a dead horse or blind ambition.
▪ They seem to be flogging a dead horse.
be the (dead) spit of sb
brain dead
▪ What's the matter with you? Are you brain dead or something?
▪ As laid back as you can get without being declared clinically brain dead.
▪ But he was pronounced dead, you know the doctor came and said brain dead.
cut sb dead
▪ I saw Josie today - she must still be angry with me because she cut me dead.
▪ Where he used to cut them dead, he now helps them on with their coats.
dead-end job
drop dead
▪ McSherry dropped dead of a heart attack in the middle of a baseball game.
▪ One day he just dropped dead in the street.
▪ One of their neighbors just dropped dead on the tennis court.
▪ A few months ago, the seven-year-old son of one family we spoke to dropped dead.
▪ I would not care if I dropped dead tomorrow.
▪ If this fails to deter the enemy, the possum promptly drops dead.
▪ In a few minutes the poor beast dropped dead.
▪ It wasn't printed in the end because he'd just dropped dead the day before, in Rochdale Road.
▪ Livestock are dropping dead in the fields.
▪ She dropped dead; her very flesh had melted away.
▪ They tried to beg, but everyone else was hungry, and they would drop dead in the streets.
give sb up for dead/lost etc
▪ After much searching, the village people gave Kay up for dead.
▪ Gray had been missing for over a year, and his wife was ready to give him up for dead.
▪ It is as if he gave them up for dead when they left Shiloh.
▪ On the thirteenth day, Kasturbai knelt before a sacred plant and prayed; she had given him up for lost.
stop/halt (dead) in your tracks
▪ A dreadful thought struck Jean, and she stopped in her tracks, right in the middle of the pavement.
▪ An hour later they were halted in their tracks by a cataract not marked on the map.
▪ Blue speaks her name, in a voice that seems strange to him, and she stops dead in her tracks.
▪ I stopped dead in my tracks, unsure of what to do next.
▪ It had been stopped in its tracks by the Railway Inspectorate and a public outcry.
▪ People stop in their tracks and stare.
▪ Petey stopped dead in his tracks at the question.
▪ The people had stopped in their tracks, women were making their children stand behind them.
strike sb dead
the quick and the dead
▪ The Ojibwa, Gary told me, make no crude distinction between the quick and the dead.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a dead moon of Jupiter
▪ a dead tree
▪ Following the shoot-out six people were dead and three were wounded.
▪ Her mother has been dead for ten years.
▪ In summer we get a few visitors, but most of the time this place is dead.
▪ Is the battery dead?
▪ It's absolutely dead here when all the students go away for the summer vacation.
▪ It was autumn, and the path was covered in dead leaves.
▪ One of the gunshot victims was pronounced dead on arrival at City Hospital.
▪ She's no longer breathing - I think she's dead.
▪ The dead man's wife was questioned by police.
▪ the Dead Sea
▪ The bar is usually dead until around 10:00.
▪ The doctor told him that unless he stopped drinking he would be dead within a year.
▪ These flowers look dead - shall I throw them away?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Following her hanging, a horse and cart set out from the Grassmarket carrying what was presumed to be her dead body.
▪ For Dorian, this was more terrible than the dead body in the room.
▪ It had been going on since 1963 and was continued despite the fact that dead trees proved to be very effective cover.
▪ She asked, then, if this meant her book was dead.
▪ So I got that net out of there myself and found a lot of dead fish, but at least no mammals.
▪ Then there was the business of the dead girl, Melanie something.
▪ They shot it dead and took the corpse to a government building in Edmonton.
II.adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
drunk
▪ One young man is leaning back upon a seat, dead drunk.
▪ If you had been dead drunk, you couldn't have slept deeper.
flat
▪ The land was dead flat, divided into large ploughed fields almost devoid of trees.
good
▪ Some of the opposing teams are dead good.
▪ A dead good singer, but, alas, no different from the way he was before.
quiet
▪ It was as big as a settee but it was dead quiet.
▪ He could have been a preacher himsel Everything went dead quiet.
▪ For a minute everything went dead quiet and Henry began to panic.
▪ There are about 200 people in this room, and it just went dead quiet.
▪ All at once the car was dead quiet, because the engine had stalled out.
▪ Hundreds of people jammed into a room, all the phones ringing, and yet everything was dead quiet.
right
▪ No, you're dead right.
▪ Cold chills ran down my right leg, which is the surest way I have of knowing when something is dead right.
▪ That, in my opinion, is dead right.
serious
▪ The only analogy was St Trinian's, but this was dead serious.
▪ In Great Groups the engagement of the enemy is both dead serious and a lark.
▪ He was dead serious in class and was the one that passed the exams.
▪ They were dead serious about going to Mars and began working out the details.
▪ They were dead serious, his Mum and Dad, about moving.
straight
▪ I even resorted to going to a hairdresser who guaranteed that I'd emerge with dead straight hair.
▪ His favourite was in bright print patchwork, and he wore it dead straight, one inch above his eyebrows.
▪ They are dead straight and can be dowsed across country.
▪ You go straight forward in a dead straight line.
▪ He keeps going in a dead straight line.
▪ He takes a quick kick dead straight towards goal ... which shearer runs on to and scores.
▪ After running dead straight for about 160 metres, the Royal Road reaches the modern road from Heraklion.
▪ A peeled fine-grained stick, dead straight.
white
▪ Huge pools of eyes stared back at her from the dead white planes of the face.
▪ I had begun wearing deck shoes because the soles of my feet had turned dead white as a result of going barefoot.
▪ Miranda stayed in the car, her face dead white in the frame of the windscreen.
▪ His face was still that dead white colour.
▪ His flesh was dead white, greenish.
wrong
▪ Statements like these are dead wrong.
▪ But he was dead wrong in predicting that such harmonious relations would ever be.
▪ And you're always dead wrong.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(as) dead as a dodo
▪ I wrote back, Paz said, I told him, Dada dead as dodo eat your hat.
▪ The campaign was as dead as a dodo.
(as) dead as a doornail
▪ If looks could kill, Dooley Barlowe would have dropped him right there, dead as a doornail.
▪ She looked dead as a doornail.
▪ There we were, messing around with his things, and all the time he was dead as a doornail in Paris.
a dead duck
▪ If he's not here on time, he's a dead duck.
▪ The news program was once considered a dead duck.
be a (dead) cert
▪ I knew my sons had been saying that of course Mum would cry - it was a dead cert!
▪ No, this was a dead cert.
▪ One candidate, the outgoing Taoiseach and the then leader of Fine Gael, was a cert.
be flogging a dead horse
▪ If something is carried on then it is flogging a dead horse or blind ambition.
▪ They seem to be flogging a dead horse.
be the (dead) spit of sb
better Red than dead
brain dead
▪ What's the matter with you? Are you brain dead or something?
▪ As laid back as you can get without being declared clinically brain dead.
▪ But he was pronounced dead, you know the doctor came and said brain dead.
cut sb dead
▪ I saw Josie today - she must still be angry with me because she cut me dead.
▪ Where he used to cut them dead, he now helps them on with their coats.
dead-end job
drop dead
▪ McSherry dropped dead of a heart attack in the middle of a baseball game.
▪ One day he just dropped dead in the street.
▪ One of their neighbors just dropped dead on the tennis court.
▪ A few months ago, the seven-year-old son of one family we spoke to dropped dead.
▪ I would not care if I dropped dead tomorrow.
▪ If this fails to deter the enemy, the possum promptly drops dead.
▪ In a few minutes the poor beast dropped dead.
▪ It wasn't printed in the end because he'd just dropped dead the day before, in Rochdale Road.
▪ Livestock are dropping dead in the fields.
▪ She dropped dead; her very flesh had melted away.
▪ They tried to beg, but everyone else was hungry, and they would drop dead in the streets.
give sb up for dead/lost etc
▪ After much searching, the village people gave Kay up for dead.
▪ Gray had been missing for over a year, and his wife was ready to give him up for dead.
▪ It is as if he gave them up for dead when they left Shiloh.
▪ On the thirteenth day, Kasturbai knelt before a sacred plant and prayed; she had given him up for lost.
kill sth stone dead
▪ Indeed, as expectations can kill the magic stone dead, such occasions are often evoked by going somewhere completely new.
stop/halt (dead) in your tracks
▪ A dreadful thought struck Jean, and she stopped in her tracks, right in the middle of the pavement.
▪ An hour later they were halted in their tracks by a cataract not marked on the map.
▪ Blue speaks her name, in a voice that seems strange to him, and she stops dead in her tracks.
▪ I stopped dead in my tracks, unsure of what to do next.
▪ It had been stopped in its tracks by the Railway Inspectorate and a public outcry.
▪ People stop in their tracks and stare.
▪ Petey stopped dead in his tracks at the question.
▪ The people had stopped in their tracks, women were making their children stand behind them.
strike sb dead
the quick and the dead
▪ The Ojibwa, Gary told me, make no crude distinction between the quick and the dead.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ It stopped me dead in my tracks.
▪ It was as big as a settee but it was dead quiet.
▪ Stef, Hugo pointed out, was dead set against junk food.
▪ The women in prison who had kids were always dead upset.
III.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
long
▪ Under the best case, by the time the proper medicine is prescribed, this patient will be long dead.
▪ Everybody from the Round Table is long dead.
▪ From a distance the braces look to be giant bleached drumsticks of a creature long dead.
■ NOUN
stone
▪ He could tell the highwayman was stone dead.
■ VERB
find
▪ Tuesday: Authorities find Schneider dead inside the vehicle early this morning.
leave
▪ The idleness and overcrowding led to rioting in four state prisons in 1985 that left an inmate dead.
shoot
▪ And although the Buddhist monk who shot him dead was motivated primarily by personal grievances, this chauvinism played a part.
▪ How about getting shot dead by her uncle, Ethan?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A light came wobbling up the Banbury Road, Oxford, in the dead of night.
▪ Among the dead were two of the train drivers.
▪ It was to keep the dead where they belong, in their grave.
▪ Makes the rotten dead sit right up.
▪ Men on board pulled the wounded and the mangled bodies of the dead from beneath collapsed debris.
▪ My house feels solid and safe and orderly; hyacinths and narcissus bloom indoors here even in the dead of winter.
▪ The dead were covered by low mounds encircled with stones.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
dead

Sainted \Saint"ed\, a.

  1. Consecrated; sacred; holy; pious. ``A most sainted king.''
    --Shak.

    Amongst the enthroned gods on sainted seats.
    --Milton.

  2. Entered into heaven; -- a euphemism for dead.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
dead

Old English dead "dead," also "torpid, dull;" of water, "still, standing," from Proto-Germanic *dauthaz (cognates: Old Saxon dod, Danish død, Swedish död, Old Frisian dad, Middle Dutch doot, Dutch dood, Old High German tot, German tot, Old Norse dauðr, Gothic dauþs "dead"), from PIE *dhou-toz-, from root *dheu- (3) "to die" (see die (v.)).\n

\nMeaning "insensible" is first attested early 13c. Of places, "inactive, dull," from 1580s. Used from 16c. in adjectival sense of "utter, absolute, quite" (as in dead drunk, first attested 1590s; dead heat, 1796). As an adverb, from late 14c. Dead on is 1889, from marksmanship. Dead duck is from 1844. Dead letter is from 1703, used of laws lacking force as well as uncollected mail. Phrase in the dead of the night first recorded 1540s. Dead soldier "emptied liquor bottle" is from 1913 in that form; the image is older.\nFor but ich haue bote of mi bale I am ded as dorenail (c.1350).\n

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Wiktionary
dead

  1. 1 (context not comparable English) No longer living. 2 (context hyperbole English) Figuratively, not alive; lacking life 3 (context of another person English) So hated that they are absolutely ignored. 4 Without emotion. 5 Stationary; static. 6 Without interest to one of the senses; dull; flat. 7 Unproductive. 8 (context not comparable of a machine, device, or electrical circuit English) Completely inactive; without power; without a signal. 9 (context not comparable English) broken or inoperable. 10 (context not comparable English) No longer used or required. 11 (context not comparable sports English) Not in play. 12 (context not comparable golf of a golf ball English) Lying so near the hole that the player is certain to hole it in the next stroke. 13 (context not comparable baseball slang 1800s English) Tagged out. 14 (context not comparable English) Full and complete. 15 (context not comparable English) Exact. 16 Experiencing pins and needles (paresthesia). 17 (context informal English) (Certain to be) in big trouble. 18 Constructed so as not to transmit sound; soundless. 19 (context obsolete English) Bringing death; deadly. 20 (context legal English) Cut off from the rights of a citizen; deprived of the power of enjoying the rights of property. 21 (context engineering English) Not imparting motion or power. adv. 1 (lb en degree) exact right. 2 (lb en degree) very, absolutely, extremely, suddenly. 3 As if dead. n. 1 (senseid en time when coldness, darkness, or stillness is most intense)(context in the singular English) Time when coldness, darkness, or stillness is most intense. 2 (context in the plural English) Those who have died. v

  2. 1 (context archaic English) Formerly, "be dead" was used instead of "have died" as the perfect tense of "die". 2 (context transitive English) To prevent by disabling; stop. 3 (context transitive English) To make dead; to deaden; to deprive of life, force, or vigour. 4 (context UK transitive slang English) To kill.

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WordNet
dead

  1. adj. no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life; "the nerve is dead"; "a dead pallor"; "he was marked as a dead man by the assassin" [ant: alive(p)]

  2. not showing characteristics of life especially the capacity to sustain life; no longer exerting force or having energy or heat; "Mars is a dead planet"; "a dead battery"; "dead soil"; "dead coals"; "the fire is dead" [ant: live]

  3. very tired; "was all in at the end of the day"; "so beat I could flop down and go to sleep anywhere"; "bushed after all that exercise"; "I'm dead after that long trip" [syn: all in(p), beat(p), bushed(p), dead(p)]

  4. unerringly accurate; "a dead shot"; "took dead aim"

  5. physically inactive; "Crater Lake is in the crater of a dead volcano of the Cascade Range"

  6. total; "dead silence"; "utter seriousness" [syn: dead(a), utter(a)]

  7. not endowed with life; "the inorganic world is inanimate"; "inanimate objects"; "dead stones" [syn: inanimate, nonliving] [ant: animate]

  8. (followed by `to') not showing human feeling or sensitivity; unresponsive; "passersby were dead to our plea for help"; "numb to the cries for mercy" [syn: dead(p), numb(p)]

  9. devoid of physical sensation; numb; "his gums were dead from the novocain"; "she felt no discomfort as the dentist drilled her deadened tooth"; "a public desensitized by continuous television coverage of atrocities" [syn: deadened]

  10. lacking acoustic resonance; "dead sounds characteristic of some compact discs"; "the dead wall surfaces of a recording studio"

  11. not yielding a return; "dead capital"; "idle funds" [syn: idle]

  12. not circulating or flowing; "dead air"; "dead water"; "stagnant water" [syn: dead(a), stagnant]

  13. out of use or operation because of a fault or breakdown; "a dead telephone line"; "the motor is dead"

  14. not surviving in active use; "Latin is a dead language"

  15. lacking resilience or bounce; "a dead tennis ball"

  16. no longer in force or use; inactive; "a defunct (or dead) law"; "a defunct organization" [syn: defunct]

  17. no longer having force or relevance; "a dead issue"

  18. sudden and complete; "came to a dead stop" [syn: dead(a)]

  19. drained of electric charge; discharged; "a dead battery"; "left the lights on and came back to find the battery drained" [syn: drained]

  20. lacking animation or excitement or activity; "the party being dead we left early"; "it was a lifeless party until she arrived" [syn: lifeless]

  21. devoid of activity; "this is a dead town; nothing ever happens here"

dead

  1. n. people who are no longer living; "they buried the dead" [ant: living]

  2. a time when coldness (or some other quality associated with death) is intense; "the dead of winter"

dead

  1. adv. quickly and without warning; "he stopped suddenly" [syn: abruptly, suddenly, short]

  2. completely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers; "an absolutely magnificent painting"; "a perfectly idiotic idea"; "you're perfectly right"; "utterly miserable"; "you can be dead sure of my innocence"; "was dead tired"; "dead right" [syn: absolutely, perfectly, utterly]

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Wikipedia
Dead (disambiguation)

Dead refers to that which has experienced death.

Dead may also refer to:

Dead (Obituary album)

Dead is a live album by American death metal band Obituary. The title is a comical reference to its being a "live" album.

Dead (Young Fathers album)

Dead is the debut studio album by Scottish hip hop group Young Fathers. It was released on Anticon and Big Dada on . The album was the winner of the 2014 Mercury Prize. On 2 November, Dead entered the official top 100 UK album chart for the first time, four days after their Mercury success, debuting at 35.

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Usage examples of "dead".

Hitler and Mussolini was dead, but a new form of it was condoned and abetted abroad by the United States government.

So I will but bid thee be comforted and abide in thy love for the living and the dead.

The long obsession had died with Maynard, and he had been dead before he hit the peat, like Cascade and Cotopaxi, Abseil and Col.

Burn into thinking Aby might be waiting there, when Burn knew Aby was dead, and what was Burn to think?

The Abies girl was lying there dead and stinking and his face got tight, then he made a little fist as though he was going to yell.

A sound like poor dead Acton might make, watching his own remains rotting out there on the rift?

Gromph saw that the dead ogres and their battering ram, which he had seen while scrying the House, no longer lay before the adamantine doors.

Most of them were short on cash, all of them had a reason to want Aden quiet or dead.

Lieutenant Kurt and the Chinese aeronaut and a dead cow, and much other uncongenial company, in the huge circle of the Whirlpool two and a quarter miles away.

The afrit has been dealt with, and much of the Resistance is dead too, it seems.

Access fore and aft is through a shielded tunnel, since anyone inside the compartment when the reactor is critical would be dead within a minute from the intense radiation.

Beyond the five low points of the dead volcanoes on the black horizon, against the fading greenish afterglow, the New Moon was rising.

If you got the power, or know somebody that does, you can be ageless, nearly immortal, just about never get sick, grow back lost limbs, even, under certain circumstances, be brought back from the dead.

I left a moderately agitato message, cradled the blower, and lit either my second or my third cigar of the morning depending upon whether or not you wanted to count dead soldiers.

I had to stand and watch my twin sister, half dead already after months of torture, die a slow and agonizing death.