dead vs alive

Definitions

noun

1. people who are no longer living
2. a time when coldness (or some other quality associated with death) is intense

adjective

1. not surviving in active use
2. unerringly accurate
3. lacking resilience or bounce
4. lacking acoustic resonance
5. not circulating or flowing

adverb

1. quickly and without warning
2. completely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers

Examples

Having drop-dead gorgeous, private, windowed offices makes it a lot easier to recruit the kinds of superstars that produce ten times as much as the merely brilliant software developers.

I barken back to the rogue Taken Howler, the dead unexpectedly alive and inimical.

You just can't let a little thing like his being already dead get in the way of a good, irrational hatful desire to kill!

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Definitions

adjective

1. capable of erupting
2. in operation
3. (followed by `to' or `of') aware of
4. mentally perceptive and responsive
5. (often followed by `with') full of life and spirit

Examples

I barken back to the rogue Taken Howler, the dead unexpectedly alive and inimical.

Even while he was missing, those uncertain hours of anxious speculation and dismal journalism, she had assumed Maxwell would be found boomingly alive, having spent the whole time enjoying the amorous advances of a short-sighted minke whale.

I play the stunning orchestral suite quite often, at which time the film comes vividly alive again and again.

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