dead
Pronunciation Adjective
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Pronunciation Adjective
dead (comparative deader, superlative deadest)
- (not comparable) No longer living.
- 1968, Ray Thomas, "Legend of a Mind", The Moody Blues, In Search of the Lost Chord.
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- All of my grandparents are dead.
- 1968, Ray Thomas, "Legend of a Mind", The Moody Blues, In Search of the Lost Chord.
- (hyperbole) Figuratively, not alive; lacking life.
- (of another person) So hated that they are absolutely ignored.
- He is dead to me.
- 1995, Rob Roy, Mary:
- "I will think of you as dead, until my husband makes you that way. Then I will think of you no longer."
- Doomed; marked for death (literally or as a hyperbole).
- "You come back here this instant! Oh, when I get my hands on you, you're dead, mister!"
- Without emotion.
- She stood with dead face and limp arms, unresponsive to my plea.
- Stationary; static.
- the dead load on the floor
- a dead lift
- Without interest to one of the senses; dull; flat.
- dead air
- a dead glass of soda.
- Unproductive.
- dead time
- dead fields
- (not comparable, of a machine, device, or electrical circuit) Completely inactive; currently without power; without a signal.
- OK, the circuit's dead. Go ahead and cut the wire.
- Now that the motor's dead you can reach in and extract the spark plugs.
- (of a battery) Unable to emit power, being discharged (flat) or faulty.
- (not comparable) Broken or inoperable.
- That monitor is dead; don’t bother hooking it up.
- (not comparable) No longer used or required.
- There are several dead laws still on the books regulating where horses may be hitched.
- Is this beer glass dead?
- 2017, Zhaomo Yang and Brian Johannesmeyer, "Dead Store Elimination (Still) Considered Harmful"
- In this paper, we survey the set of techniques found in the wild that are intended to prevent data-scrubbing operations from being removed during dead store elimination.
- (engineering) Not imparting motion or power by design.
- the dead spindle of a lathe
- A dead axle, also called a lazy axle, is not part of the drivetrain, but is instead free-rotating.
- (not comparable, sports) Not in play.
- Once the ball crosses the foul line, it's dead.
- (not comparable, golf, of a golf ball) Lying so near the hole that the player is certain to hole it in the next stroke.
- (not comparable, baseball, slang, 1800s) Tagged out.
- (not comparable) Full and complete.
- dead stop
- dead sleep
- dead giveaway
- dead silence
- (not comparable) Exact.
- dead center
- dead aim
- a dead eye
- a dead level
- Experiencing pins and needles (paresthesia).
- After sitting on my hands for a while, my arms became dead.
- Constructed so as not to transmit sound; soundless.
- a dead floor
- (obsolete) Bringing death; deadly.
- (legal) Cut off from the rights of a citizen; deprived of the power of enjoying the rights of property.
- A person who is banished or who becomes a monk is civilly dead.
- (rare, especially, religion, often with "to") Indifferent to, no longer subject to or ruled by (sin, guilt, pleasure, etc).
- 1839, William Jenks, The Comprehensive Commentary on the Holy Bible: Acts-Revelation, page 361:
- He was dead to the law. Whatever account others might make of it, yet, for his part, he was dead to it. […] But though he was thus dead to the law, yet he […] was far from thinking himself discharged from his duty to God' on the contrary, he was dead to the law, that he might live unto God.
- 1849, Robert Haldane, Exposition of the Epistle to the Romans, page 255:
- But he died to the guilt of sin—to the guilt of his people's sins which he had taken upon him; and they, dying with him, as is above declared, die to sin precisely in the same sense in which he died to it. […] He was not justified from it till his resurrection, but from that moment he was dead to it. When he shall appear the second time, it will be "without sin."
- 1839, William Jenks, The Comprehensive Commentary on the Holy Bible: Acts-Revelation, page 361:
- See also Thesaurus:dead
- German: gestorben
- Russian: мёртвый
- Portuguese: morto
- German: bewegungslos
- Russian: неподви́жный
- Russian: безжи́зненный
- Russian: до́хлый
- Spanish: muerto
- Russian: сло́манный
- Portuguese: dormente
dead (not comparable)
- (degree, informal, colloquial) Exactly.
- dead right; dead level; dead flat; dead straight; dead left
- He hit the target dead in the centre.
- (degree, informal, colloquial) Very, absolutely, extremely.
- 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
- Suddenly and completely.
- He stopped dead.
- (informal) As if dead.
- dead tired; dead quiet; dead asleep; dead pale; dead cold; dead still
- 1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, chapter 2, in The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, OCLC 558196156 ↗:
- I was tired of reading, and dead sleepy.
- German: genau
- Russian: пря́мо
- German: tod-
- Russian: абсолю́тно
dead (uncountable)
(often with "the") Time when coldness, darkness, or stillness is most intense. - The dead of night. The dead of winter.
- (with "the", a demonstrative, or a possessive) Those who have died.
- Have respect for the dead.
- The villagers are mourning their dead.
- The dead are always with us, in our hearts.
- (those who have died) deceased
- French: milieu, cœur, profondeurs
- Russian: середи́на
dead (deads, present participle deading; past and past participle deaded)
- (transitive) To prevent by disabling; stop.
- 1826, The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Edward Reynolds, Lord Bishop of Norwich, collected by Edward Reynolds, Benedict Riveley, and Alexander Chalmers. pp. 227. London: B. Holdsworth.
- “What a man should do, when finds his natural impotency dead him in spiritual works”
- 1826, The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Edward Reynolds, Lord Bishop of Norwich, collected by Edward Reynolds, Benedict Riveley, and Alexander Chalmers. pp. 227. London: B. Holdsworth.
- (transitive) To make dead; to deaden; to deprive of life, force, or vigour.
- Heaven's stern decree, / With many an ill, hath numbed and deaded me.
- (UK, transitive, slang) To kill.
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