dead
IPA: dˈɛd
noun
- (often with "the") Time when coldness, darkness, or stillness is most intense.
- (with "the") Those (dead people) who have died.
- (UK) (usually in the plural) Sterile mining waste, often present as many large rocks stacked inside the workings.
- (bodybuilding, colloquial) Clipping of deadlift. [(weightlifting) A weight training exercise where one lifts a loaded barbell off the ground from a stabilized bent-over position.]
- (organic chemistry) Initialism of diethyl azodicarboxylate.
verb
- (transitive) To prevent by disabling; to stop.
- (transitive) To make dead; to deaden; to deprive of life, force, or vigour.
- (UK, US, transitive, slang) To kill.
adjective
- (usually not comparable) No longer living; (usually only when referring to people) deceased. (Also used as a noun.)
- (usually not comparable) Devoid of living things; barren.
- (hyperbolic) Figuratively, not alive; lacking life.
- (of another person) So hated or offensive as to be absolutely shunned, ignored or ostracized.
- Doomed; marked for death; as good as dead (literally or as a hyperbole).
- Without emotion; impassive.
- Stationary; static; immobile or immovable.
- Without interest to one of the senses; dull; flat.
- Unproductive; fallow.
- Past, bygone, vanished.
- (of a place) Lacking usual activity; unexpectedly quiet or empty of people.
- (not comparable, of a machine, device, or electrical circuit) Completely inactive; currently without power; without a signal; not live.
- (of a battery) Unable to emit power, being discharged (flat) or faulty.
- (not comparable) Broken or inoperable.
- (not comparable) No longer used or required.
- (engineering) Intentionally designed so as not to impart motion or power.
- (not comparable, sports) Not in play.
- (not comparable, golf, of a golf ball) Lying so near the hole that the player is certain to hole it in the next stroke.
- (not comparable, baseball, slang, 1800s) Tagged out.
- (not comparable) Full and complete (usually applied to nouns involving lack of motion, sound, activity, or other signs of life).
- (not comparable) Exact; on the dot.
- Experiencing pins and needles (paresthesia).
- (acoustics) Constructed so as not to reflect or transmit sound; soundless; anechoic.
- (obsolete) Bringing death; deadly.
- (law) Cut off from the rights of a citizen; deprived of the power of enjoying the rights of property.
- (rare, especially religion, often with "to") Indifferent to; having no obligation toward; no longer subject to or ruled by (sin, guilt, pleasure, etc).
- (linguistics) Of a syllable in languages such as Thai and Burmese: ending abruptly.
adverb
- (degree, informal, colloquial) Exactly.
- (degree, informal, colloquial) Very, absolutely, extremely.
- Suddenly and completely.
- (informal) As if dead.
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Examples of "dead" in Sentences
- He eviscerated the dead animal.
- The milkman is lying there dead.
- Chivalry is dead on the racetrack.
- Dead leaves are likely to abscise.
- The footnotes are the dead giveaway.
- *wonders if maus is rrilly dead, or onlee mostly dead*
- In stead he is fascinated by the dead and the living dead.
- We look for the resurrection of the dead and life everlasting
- He can heal the sick and raise the dead to a full semblance of life.
- I look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come.
- Total nonsense..dead guys doing spinal surgeries on dead guys and what not..
- They went to the scene of the massacre to bury the dead and avenge their death.
- Men do not labour over the ignoble and petty dead -- and why should not the _dead_ be
- You can do so _spiritually_, and some of you do it, and the consequence is that you are dead, _dead_, DEAD!
- Feldscher during twenty years for nothing and knew that a wound was a wound; when a man was dead he was _dead_.
- And in that register it says that he is dead -- _dead_, I tell you -- and what is more, that he was killed by accident.
- Martha, the sister of him that was dead, saith unto him, Lord, by this time he stinketh: for he hath been _dead_ four days.
- I could not bear it, and the demon of jealousy had full possession of me, young as I was, and sometimes, when I saw him preferred to me, I wished him dead, _dead_, just as he is now.
- In such a sentence as That fierce lion who came here is dead, the class of lion, which we may call the animal class, would be referred to by concording prefixes no less than six times, with the demonstrative (that), the qualifying adjective, the noun itself, the relative pronoun, the subjective prefix to the verb of the relative clause, and the subjective prefix to the verb of the main clause (is dead).
- _It is rather for us_ to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they here gave the last full measure of devotion; that we here highly resolve that _these dead_ shall not have died in vain; that _this nation_, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.