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(with "the", a demonstrative, or a possessive) Those who have died.
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Have respect for the dead.
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(often with "the") Time when coldness, darkness, or stillness is most intense.
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The dead of night. The dead of winter.
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(usually plural) Sterile mining waste, often present as many large rocks stacked inside the workings.
verb
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To prevent by disabling; stop.
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To make dead; to deaden; to deprive of life, force, or vigour.
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To kill.
adjective
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No longer living.
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All of my grandparents are dead.
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Figuratively, not alive; lacking life.
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(of another person) So hated that they are absolutely ignored.
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He is dead to me.
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Doomed; marked for death (literally or as a hyperbole).
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"You come back here this instant! Oh, you're dead, mister!"
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Without emotion.
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She stood with dead face and limp arms, unresponsive to my plea.
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Stationary; static.
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a dead lift
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Without interest to one of the senses; dull; flat.
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a dead glass of soda.
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Unproductive.
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dead fields
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(of a machine, device, or electrical circuit) Completely inactive; currently without power; without a signal.
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Now that the motor's dead you can reach in and extract the spark plugs.
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(of a battery) Unable to emit power, being discharged (flat) or faulty.
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Broken or inoperable.
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That monitor is dead; don’t bother hooking it up.
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No longer used or required.
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Is this beer glass dead?
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Not imparting motion or power by design.
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A dead axle, also called a lazy axle, is not part of the drivetrain, but is instead free-rotating.
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Not in play.
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Once the ball crosses the foul line, it's dead.
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(of a golf ball) Lying so near the hole that the player is certain to hole it in the next stroke.
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(1800s) Tagged out.
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Full and complete.
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dead giveaway
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Exact.
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a dead eye
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Experiencing pins and needles (paresthesia).
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After sitting on my hands for a while, my arms became dead.
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Constructed so as not to transmit sound; soundless.
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a dead floor
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Bringing death; deadly.
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Cut off from the rights of a citizen; deprived of the power of enjoying the rights of property.
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A person who is banished or who becomes a monk is civilly dead.
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(often with "to") Indifferent to, no longer subject to or ruled by (sin, guilt, pleasure, etc).
adverb
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(degree) Exactly.
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He hit the target dead in the centre.
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(degree) Very, absolutely, extremely.
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dead wrong; dead set; dead serious; dead drunk; dead broke; dead earnest; dead certain; dead slow; dead sure; dead simple; dead honest; dead accurate; dead easy; dead scared; dead solid; dead black; dead white; dead empty
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Suddenly and completely.
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He stopped dead.
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As if dead.
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dead tired; dead quiet; dead asleep; dead pale; dead cold; dead still
Examples of dead in a Sentence
The battery in the lantern might be dead or the fall might have broken it.
A living dog is better than a dead lion.
Every dead soldier has a face, a story, and a bereaved family.
I may be dead wrong, but I for one say, go for it.
She's dead; murdered, and I feel terrible about it.
The ground around the monument was rich with the long dead whose souls were trapped.
He was a dead man.
One afternoon I amused myself by watching a barred owl (Strix nebulosa) sitting on one of the lower dead limbs of a white pine, close to the trunk, in broad daylight, I standing within a rod of him.
Here and there a couple of bees, by force of habit and custom cleaning out the brood cells, with efforts beyond their strength laboriously drag away a dead bee or bumblebee without knowing why they do it.
In actuality, he was dead.
She screamed and jumped back before she realized the snakes were dead.
If he was dead, it meant her father did it, not Jule, who had been in the basement.
Jule, can the souls of those long dead still be freed, even if they're trapped in the ground?
When you found the bug, I was sure we were dead ducks, but you blamed the wrong guys.
You were dead for a few minutes.
He is really dead now, and will wither very quickly.
Officially Mr. Marsh was dead.
Her eyes returned to Jonny, who was lapping up what was left of the dead woman's blood.
There's no dead body...
She was in a small clearing divided by a fallen dead tree.
After many adventures I reached Omaha, only to find that all my old friends were dead or had moved away.
She has felt dead squirrels and rabbits and other wild animals, and is anxious to see a "walk-squirrel," which interpreted, means, I think, a "live squirrel."
So vividly did he recall that hospital stench of dead flesh that he looked round to see where the smell came from.
But not only was it impossible to make out what was happening from where he was standing down below, or from the knoll above on which some of his generals had taken their stand, but even from the fleches themselves--in which by this time there were now Russian and now French soldiers, alternately or together, dead, wounded, alive, frightened, or maddened-- even at those fleches themselves it was impossible to make out what was taking place.
Only a few of them still move, rise, and feebly fly to settle on the enemy's hand, lacking the spirit to die stinging him; the rest are dead and fall as lightly as fish scales.
I told Julie everything that happened, my being attacked at Howie's house and that the assailant was shot dead.
As I understand it, the so-called visions were perpetrated with the assistance of a second person, now dead.
His guards lay dead in the hallway before his door, and she leapt over their bodies, shoving the door to his apartments open.
The instincts of the newly minted spy were dead on.
By the time we became an item, my mother was dead and there was no reason in his mind to resurrect old ghosts.
He was unconscious – or dead? – while she stood on a beach near blue-green depths so clear, she could see the white sand at the bottom of the water.
That ought to make Edith Shipton dead last by Dean's calculation.
He wouldn't be caught dead with a bouquet of wildflowers and there was no way he was going to waste money on flowers that would wither and die within a week.
Lana shoved away from the dead man, horrified.
She swears you're not dead.
He searched her features with his gaze, not understanding her strange insistence that she was really dead.
I don't want to terminate him but he's not dead, official-like, so they can't just pay off his life insurance.
Dean thought a dead fish might have been more appropriate.
They stopped at the spring where they had found the dead longhorn bull years ago and dismounted to let the horses rest.
They promised an easy expiation for crimes to both living and dead on payment of a fee, undertook to punish the enemies of their clients, and held out to them the prospect of perpetual banqueting and drinking-bouts in Paradise.
The dead even were not free from the Holy Office; but processes could be instituted against them and their remains subjected to punishment.
The first is a huge mass of a bright green colour, living to a great age, and when dead becoming of a grey and stony appearance.
Dumont was a Genevese exile, and an old friend of Romilly's, who willingly prepared for him those famous addresses which Mirabeau used to make the Assembly pass by sudden bursts'of eloquent declamation; Claviere helped him in finance, and not only worked out his figures, but even wrote his financial discourses; Lamourette wrote the speeches on the civil constitution of the clergy; Reybaz not only wrote for him his famous speeches on the assignats, the organization of the national guard, and others, which Mirabeau read word for word at the tribune, but even the posthumous speech on succession to the estates of intestates, which Talleyrand read in the Assembly as the last work of his dead friend.
Wagner was buried at Wahnfried in the tomb he had himself prepared, on the 18th of February; and a few days afterwards King Ludwig rode to Bayreuth alone, and at dead of night, to pay his last tribute to the master of his world of dreams.
But before its publication Eckhart was dead.
To the east-north-east there is another system at Kermario (Place of the Dead), which consists of 855 stones, many of them of great size - some, for example, 18 ft.
Among the limbers lay several dead men.
The old man was still sitting in the ornamental garden, like a fly impassive on the face of a loved one who is dead, tapping the last on which he was making the bast shoe, and two little girls, running out from the hot house carrying in their skirts plums they had plucked from the trees there, came upon Prince Andrew.
For herself she did not care where she remained or what happened to her, but she felt herself the representative of her dead father and of Prince Andrew.
There were many dead whom he did not know, but some he recognized.