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Dead

adjective
1.
No longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life.  "A dead pallor" , "He was marked as a dead man by the assassin"
2.
Not showing characteristics of life especially the capacity to sustain life; no longer exerting force or having energy or heat.  "Dead soil" , "Dead coals" , "The fire is dead"
3.
Very tired.  Synonyms: all in, beat, bushed.  "So beat I could flop down and go to sleep anywhere" , "Bushed after all that exercise" , "I'm dead after that long trip"
4.
Unerringly accurate.  "Took dead aim"
5.
Physically inactive.
6.
(followed by 'to') not showing human feeling or sensitivity; unresponsive.  Synonym: numb.  "Numb to the cries for mercy"
7.
Devoid of physical sensation; numb.  Synonym: deadened.  "She felt no discomfort as the dentist drilled her deadened tooth" , "A public desensitized by continuous television coverage of atrocities"
8.
Lacking acoustic resonance.  "The dead wall surfaces of a recording studio"
9.
Not yielding a return.  Synonym: idle.  "Idle funds"
10.
Not circulating or flowing.  Synonym: stagnant.  "Dead water" , "Stagnant water"
11.
Not surviving in active use.
12.
Lacking resilience or bounce.
13.
Out of use or operation because of a fault or breakdown.  "The motor is dead"
14.
No longer having force or relevance.
15.
Complete.  Synonym: utter.  "Utter seriousness"
16.
Drained of electric charge; discharged.  Synonym: drained.  "Left the lights on and came back to find the battery drained"
17.
Devoid of activity.
adverb
1.
Quickly and without warning.  Synonyms: abruptly, short, suddenly.
2.
Completely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers.  Synonyms: absolutely, perfectly, utterly.  "A perfectly idiotic idea" , "You're perfectly right" , "Utterly miserable" , "You can be dead sure of my innocence" , "Was dead tired" , "Dead right"
noun
1.
People who are no longer living.
2.
A time when coldness (or some other quality associated with death) is intense.



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"Dead" Quotes from Famous Books



... agrees with them, they will eat that mixed with the nut with greediness. However, as it is frequently found that rats are very troublesome in sewers and drains, in such cases arsenic may be used with success in the following manner. Take some dead rats, and having put some white arsenic, finely powdered, into an old pepper-box, shake a quantity of it on the foreparts of the dead rats, and put them down the holes, or avenues, by the sides of the sewers at which they come in; this puts a stop to the ...
— The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, • Mary Eaton
... excellent of women, and worthy to be your sister—she and I will follow him to-morrow. He will tell you much which my hurried spirits will not allow me to tell you in this letter. He knows everything. He has been a brother since my mother's death. She is dead, Henry. She died in my arms; and will it not give you pleasure to know that her dying lips blessed me, and expressed the hope that you would one day return to find, in my authorized love, some recompense for all the evils to which ...
— Jane Talbot • Charles Brockden Brown
... took it and went his way. When the [hour of the] old man's admission [to the mercy of God] drew nigh, he called his sons to him and acquainted them with the place where he had hidden his riches. As soon as he was dead, they went and dug up the treasure and found wealth galore, for that the money, which the first son had taken by stealth, was on the surface and he knew not that under it was other money. So they took it and divided it and the first son took his share with the rest and laid it to that ...
— Tales from the Arabic Volumes 1-3 • John Payne
... was a public-house in the city, which from its appearance did not seem to do a very thriving trade; but as it was carried on from year to year in the same dull, monotonous, dead-alive sort of fashion, it must be surmised that some one found an interest in ...
— The Three Clerks • Anthony Trollope
... her to the sofa and sat beside her, holding her hand. And then he told her—Elizabeth never knew just how he broke the news, whether it had been gently or suddenly. She only knew that he had come to tell her that John was dead; that John had been killed by an explosion of dynamite, at the blasting of a tunnel on the British North ...
— 'Lizbeth of the Dale • Marian Keith


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