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UK
/dˈɛd/
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[ US /ˈdɛd/ ]
[ US /ˈdɛd/ ]
NOUN
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people who are no longer living
they buried the dead -
a time when coldness (or some other quality associated with death) is intense
the dead of winter
ADJECTIVE
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not surviving in active use
Latin is a dead language -
unerringly accurate
a dead shot
took dead aim -
lacking resilience or bounce
a dead tennis ball -
lacking acoustic resonance
the dead wall surfaces of a recording studio
dead sounds characteristic of some compact discs -
not circulating or flowing
stagnant water
dead water
dead air -
no longer having force or relevance
a dead issue -
not yielding a return
dead capital
idle funds -
devoid of physical sensation; numb
a public desensitized by continuous television coverage of atrocities
she felt no discomfort as the dentist drilled her deadened tooth
his gums were dead from the novocain -
drained of electric charge; discharged
a dead battery
left the lights on and came back to find the battery drained -
(followed by `to') not showing human feeling or sensitivity; unresponsive
numb to the cries for mercy
passersby were dead to our plea for help -
physically inactive
Crater Lake is in the crater of a dead volcano of the Cascade Range -
the complete stoppage of an action
came to a dead stop -
not showing characteristics of life especially the capacity to sustain life; no longer exerting force or having energy or heat
the fire is dead
dead coals
dead soil
Mars is a dead planet -
very tired
I'm dead after that long trip
so beat I could flop down and go to sleep anywhere
was all in at the end of the day
bushed after all that exercise -
out of use or operation because of a fault or breakdown
a dead telephone line
the motor is dead -
no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life
the nerve is dead
he was marked as a dead man by the assassin
a dead pallor -
devoid of activity
this is a dead town; nothing ever happens here
ADVERB
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quickly and without warning
he stopped suddenly -
completely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers
an absolutely magnificent painting
a perfectly idiotic idea
was dead tired
you're perfectly right
you can be dead sure of my innocence
dead right
utterly miserable
How To Use dead In A Sentence
- 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. Shadow Games
- 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! Tom Cruise is a LOT OLDER than I thought
- Over the winter months we've been doing a great deal of clearing up on our part-neglected croft garden, grubbing out and shredding dead shrubs and cutting back those that have either grown too large or are crowding others.
- Of course, it was snuffed out because Mars is tectonically dead, so the recycling of chemicals that you get on Earth which keeps things going and supplies the surface biosphere would have actually ceased on Mars a lot earlier.
- Additional, wall, condole can choose deadening very, if mineral wool is sound-absorbing board wait.
- It was a simple rectangle of crudely mounded basalt rocks, a distinctive arrangement reminiscent of the way Samoans and other Polynesians marked their dead in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
- The thanatological philosophies of spirit that Schelling here wishes were dead are in fact very much alivehence the reiterated forcefulness of his censure. Mourning Becomes Theory: Schelling and the Absent Body of Philosophy
- I feel unwanted feel like leaving spreading lies can't help but feel lonelily you've damned me to hell once twice and again you're supposed to be my parents not just another person that hates me dead - alive Godhatesu Diary Entry
- When Harry's turned on, his adrenaline flows and the endorphins pump, and he feels alive instead of dead.