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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).