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deader

a. (context figuratively humorous English) (en-comparative of: dead); or at least more evidently dead. n. (context figurative or humorous informal English) One who is deceased, or will shortly become so.

Usage examples of "deader".

The Saturday after his dad brought the deader home, the family ran into a guy at the grocery with whom Joe had never gotten along.

His father was pushing the STOP button on the remote, but the deader kept going.

With more of a sympathetic eye, Joe tried to approach the problem logically in the following weeks, deciding that if he had to live with the deader he might as well make the best of it.

He stopped after a couple of tries at sitting on his bed and working the control pad while the deader dusted and swept around him.

No matter how many times you remoted the deader to sit and stay, twenty minutes later it was up again.

The idea of a deader surrogate was mind-boggling to Joe and he could think of a hundred technical questions, such as how did the deader maintain a warm enough body temperature and provide the fetus with oxygen?

Sympathy for the mindless deader warred in him with the pain of loss, still fresh after four months.

Strumbermian officer peered at me through eyes that were even deader than most Strum orbs.

Black hair whipping about his face, Ryan swept the killing field with the muzzle of the deadly blaster, ready for betrayal from the deaders, or the soil underneath.

In the company as a whole (excuse me, the "strike force"), we had twenty replacements for the nineteen people we lost from the Aleph raid: one amputation, four deaders, fourteen psychotics.

Two deaders, two good wounds, but looks like you're pulling off to the left a little.

Mom, you got four deaders out of six that time, one good wound, and a miss.

And the worst of it was that picking a date that far back meant that a substantial number of the deaders were born before brain-scan, giving me incomplete data.

Get away from all these owly-eyed deaders waitin' for the tromp and the trump.