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Dead   /dɛd/   Listen
Dead

adjective
1.
No longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life.  "A dead pallor" , "He was marked as a dead man by the assassin"
2.
Not showing characteristics of life especially the capacity to sustain life; no longer exerting force or having energy or heat.  "Dead soil" , "Dead coals" , "The fire is dead"
3.
Very tired.  Synonyms: all in, beat, bushed.  "So beat I could flop down and go to sleep anywhere" , "Bushed after all that exercise" , "I'm dead after that long trip"
4.
Unerringly accurate.  "Took dead aim"
5.
Physically inactive.
6.
(followed by 'to') not showing human feeling or sensitivity; unresponsive.  Synonym: numb.  "Numb to the cries for mercy"
7.
Devoid of physical sensation; numb.  Synonym: deadened.  "She felt no discomfort as the dentist drilled her deadened tooth" , "A public desensitized by continuous television coverage of atrocities"
8.
Lacking acoustic resonance.  "The dead wall surfaces of a recording studio"
9.
Not yielding a return.  Synonym: idle.  "Idle funds"
10.
Not circulating or flowing.  Synonym: stagnant.  "Dead water" , "Stagnant water"
11.
Not surviving in active use.
12.
Lacking resilience or bounce.
13.
Out of use or operation because of a fault or breakdown.  "The motor is dead"
14.
No longer having force or relevance.
15.
Complete.  Synonym: utter.  "Utter seriousness"
16.
Drained of electric charge; discharged.  Synonym: drained.  "Left the lights on and came back to find the battery drained"
17.
Devoid of activity.
adverb
1.
Quickly and without warning.  Synonyms: abruptly, short, suddenly.
2.
Completely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers.  Synonyms: absolutely, perfectly, utterly.  "A perfectly idiotic idea" , "You're perfectly right" , "Utterly miserable" , "You can be dead sure of my innocence" , "Was dead tired" , "Dead right"
noun
1.
People who are no longer living.
2.
A time when coldness (or some other quality associated with death) is intense.



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"Dead" Quotes from Famous Books



... polluted reek and all died the same death of corruption. Of those who were stricken none recovered, and the illness was ever the same—gross boils, raving, and the black blotches which gave its name to the disease. All through the winter the dead rotted by the wayside for want of some one to bury them. In many a village no single man was left alive. Then at last the spring came with sunshine and health and lightness and laughter—the greenest, sweetest, tenderest spring that England had ever known—but only half of England ...
— Sir Nigel • Arthur Conan Doyle
... was a phlegmatic German, and proper-behaved, as good falconers should be, who, as "Old Tristram's booke" has it, even if a bird should be lost, he should never swear, and only say, "Dieu soit loue," and "remember that the mother of hawks is not dead." ...
— Helen • Maria Edgeworth
... all, women clerks and secretaries want more scope. After ten years of clerking and secretarying they find that they are up against a dead wall. There is no prospect of advancement, and no call on their initiative. In private secretarial work this is not always the fault of the employer; it is often inherent in the nature of the work. Unless ...
— Women Workers in Seven Professions • Edith J. Morley
... desired to possess me, each saying to other, "I will enjoy this wench." On this wise wrangling and jangling ensued till right soon it turned to battle and bloodshed, when moment by moment and one by one the ravishers fell dead until all were slain save a single pirate, the bravest of the band. Quoth he to me, "Thou shalt fare with me to Cairo where dwelleth a friend of mine and to him will I give thee, for erewhile I promised him that ...
— Supplemental Nights, Volume 3 • Richard F. Burton
... of horrors, felt something clammy resting on me. It was the sick man's hand. Two or three times during the evening previous, he had thrust it into my bunk, and I had quietly removed it; but now I started and flung it from me. The arm fell stark and stiff, and I knew that he was dead. ...
— Omoo: Adventures in the South Seas • Herman Melville


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