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.
- 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.
- They went to the scene of the massacre to bury the dead and avenge their death.
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