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English to English adjective
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no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life |  | Example: the nerve is dead
a dead pallor
he was marked as a dead man by the assassin
source: wordnet30
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not showing characteristics of life especially the capacity to sustain life; no longer exerting force or having energy or heat | | Example: Mars is a dead planet
dead soil
dead coals
the fire is dead
source: wordnet30
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Deprived of life; -- opposed to alive and living; reduced to that state of a being in which the organs of motion and life have irrevocably ceased to perform their functions; as, a dead tree; a dead man. | | source: webster1913
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Carrying no current, or producing no useful effect; -- said of a conductor in a dynamo or motor, also of a telegraph wire which has no instrument attached and, therefore, is not in use. | | source: webster1913 adjective satellite
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very tired | | Example: was all in at the end of the day
so beat I could flop down and go to sleep anywhere
bushed after all that exercise
I'm dead after that long trip
source: wordnet30
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unerringly accurate | | Example: a dead shot
took dead aim
source: wordnet30
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physically inactive | | Example: Crater Lake is in the crater of a dead volcano of the Cascade Range
source: wordnet30
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(followed by `to') not showing human feeling or sensitivity; unresponsive | | Example: passersby were dead to our plea for help
numb to the cries for mercy
source: wordnet30
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devoid of physical sensation; numb | | Example: his gums were dead from the novocain
she felt no discomfort as the dentist drilled her deadened tooth
a public desensitized by continuous television coverage of atrocities
source: wordnet30
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lacking acoustic resonance | | Example: dead sounds characteristic of some compact discs
the dead wall surfaces of a recording studio
source: wordnet30
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not yielding a return | | Example: dead capital
idle funds
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not circulating or flowing | | Example: dead air
dead water
stagnant water
source: wordnet30
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not surviving in active use | | Example: Latin is a dead language
source: wordnet30
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lacking resilience or bounce | | Example: a dead tennis ball
source: wordnet30
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out of use or operation because of a fault or breakdown | | Example: a dead telephone line
the motor is dead
source: wordnet30
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no longer having force or relevance | | Example: a dead issue
source: wordnet30
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complete | | Example: came to a dead stop
utter seriousness
source: wordnet30
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drained of electric charge; discharged | | Example: a dead battery
left the lights on and came back to find the battery drained
source: wordnet30
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devoid of activity | | Example: this is a dead town; nothing ever happens here
source: wordnet30 adverb
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quickly and without warning | | Example: he stopped suddenly
source: wordnet30
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completely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers | | Example: an absolutely magnificent painting
a perfectly idiotic idea
you're perfectly right
utterly miserable
you can be dead sure of my innocence
was dead tired
dead right
source: wordnet30
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To a degree resembling death; to the last degree; completely; wholly. | | source: webster1913 noun
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people who are no longer living | | Example: they buried the dead
source: wordnet30
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a time when coldness (or some other quality associated with death) is intense | | Example: the dead of winter
source: wordnet30
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The most quiet or deathlike time; the period of profoundest repose, inertness, or gloom; as, the dead of winter. | | source: webster1913 verb
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To make dead; to deaden; to deprive of life, force, or vigor. | | source: webster1913
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To die; to lose life or force. | | source: webster1913
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