dead
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1.0
- adjective
- /dɛd/
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- Perhaps chivalry was not dead, it was sleeping.
- a dead body
- a dead end
- dead or alive
You see here the car battery is dead, doesn't turn on.
- You see here the car battery is dead, doesn't turn on.
- You should have said he's dead, snap out of it.
- So maybe, just maybe, SLI isn't dead yet.
- One guy is dead, laying dead in the street.
- It's just kind of dead soil that has a dark color.
- And everyone assumes that he's dead because everyone else died.
- Can we not just find like dead freezer packed shad?
Examples
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There would be many more shattered buildings, dead children, and dead mothers, gutters awash in blood.
Academic text (2011) -
So, where tradition dictates that the dead should be buried, cremation will seem disrespectful.
Academic text (2011) -
But for most people, when their computer is dead, the computer is dead.
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You see here the car battery is dead, doesn't turn on.
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No one disagreed that the old order was either dead or seriously wounded.
Academic text (2017) -
Instead, they began burying their dead in or around the churches being built then.
Academic text (2008) -
Please, I've just been attacked, and they're all dead and I think I might be next.
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At the close of the shootout, Lenahan's daughters were found dead in the truck from gunshot wounds.
Academic text (2017) -
Narcissa Prentiss Whitman is listed second among the dead, after her husband, on the weather-beaten stone.
Academic text (2011) -
The plant died because it did not receive enough sunlight and water, leaving it completely dead.
Synonyms
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3.4
Not moving and showing no signs of people or animals
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3.9
Completely finished and no longer talked about
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3.5
A person who is not alive, used in formal or respectful speech
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5.1
Completely without life or totally not working
Having no life or power at all
No longer living and often remembered
Not alive and does not grow or breathe
Not living any more, for example a person or animal
A device that has no electric power to work
Antonyms
Idioms
- Informal
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7.5
Continuing to talk about something already decided and pointless
Compounds
- Specialized
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7.4
A person with no brain activity and no chance to get better, though the body may still work
- Jargon
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9.3
A secret place where people leave messages or items for others to collect without meeting
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6.1
A group of ancient Hebrew and Aramaic writings found in caves near the Dead Sea
- Specialized
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8.1
To estimate your position using direction, distance, and past information without tools
- Specialized
1
8.2
A position where the piston and rod are straight so the engine cannot turn
- Literature
A phrase that once made a clear picture but now feels literal like 'leg of a table'
A small plant with leaves like stinging nettles that does not sting when touched, often in gardens
- Specialized
A space with no air movement between layers that helps keep heat in or out
- Specialized
Material made by heating limestone until it stops reacting and does not bind well
- UK
A cold room in hospitals and funeral homes that holds dead bodies before burial or cremation
A phrase used to describe famous white European men from history who stand for traditional ideas
A position for floating face down in the water with arms stretched forward to rest and breathe
- Specialized
A species or group that cannot have young and so ends its family line
A European plant from the mint family with white flowers that looks like stinging nettles but does not sting
How Alive
Surface Forms
Etymology
Dead comes from an old English and German word meaning 'not alive' and is the same root as death and die. So it is used for people or things that are 'no longer alive' or 'not working'.