dead
5
7.4
- noun
- /dɛd/
- Literature
:
profundidad
- Blackbird singing in the dead of night
- the dead of night
- the dead of winter
- the dead of summer
I'd wear that bright yellow bastard right in the in the dead of summer in the at school.
- I'd wear that bright yellow bastard right in the in the dead of summer in the at school.
Examples
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How in hell in the dead of winter could Knudsen afford to feed all these critters?
Fiction book (1997) -
Booze cruises are awesome in the dead of a Pennsylvania winter.
Blog text (15) -
So that is night thoughts and it's as deep and profound as conversations with friends in the dead of the night.
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Instead, his first performance took place in a deserted house in the dead of winter when he was nine years old.
Fiction book (2002) -
If the Green Bay Packers still play outdoors in the dead of winter, so can everyone else.
Blog text (32) -
Packer's problems started when his party tried to cross the San Juan Mountains in southwestern Colorado in the dead of winter.
Academic text (2002) -
Hopelessly isolated in the dead of winter, the riverbank crime scene was something of a backwoods thoroughfare in the summer months.
Academic text (2002) -
But not once during the two years they met there, each Tuesday and Thursday in the sweet dead of night, was Brother Brownlee Kane awakened, either by God's nudge or his daughter's moan.
Fiction book (2002) -
Penultimately, the M40 in the dead of the night, ghostly tentacles of mist shrouding the road as the big car thrummed through the Midlands towards London.
Fiction book (1998) -
On a chilly night in January, we experienced the silence of the dead of winter.
Synonyms
3
5.1
The coldest, darkest time of winter when the weather is at its worst
Antonyms
Idioms
- Informal
6
7.5
Continuing to talk about something already decided and pointless
Compounds
- Specialized
19
7.4
A person with no brain activity and no chance to get better, though the body may still work
- Jargon
5
9.3
A secret place where people leave messages or items for others to collect without meeting
2
6.1
A group of ancient Hebrew and Aramaic writings found in caves near the Dead Sea
- Specialized
1
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
Surface Forms
Etymology
The phrase 'the dead of night' uses dead in the sense of 'completely still' from the old meaning 'not alive', and it means the time when everything is most quiet and motionless. So 'the dead of winter' means the middle, most still part of winter.