Sekirov Dictionary

dead

/dɛd/

adjective 31
adverb 4
verb 4
noun 4
forms 5
phrases 20

adjective31

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(of a person, an animal or a plant) not alive any more
- All of my grandparents are dead.
- Have respect for the dead.
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Figuratively, not alive; lacking life.
- When a man's verses cannot be understood, nor a man's good wit seconded with the forward child, understanding, it strikes a man more dead than a great reckoning in a little room. — 1600
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Completely inactive; currently without power; without a signal; not live.
- 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.
Unable to emit power, being discharged (flat) or faulty.
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Broken or inoperable.
- That monitor is dead; don’t bother hooking it up.
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Utterly exhausted.
- “Finished the last one at three this morning, apart from bits and bobs and poppers. Quite frankly, I'm dead!” — 1970
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Lacking usual activity; unexpectedly quiet or empty of people.
- For a Friday night, it's really dead in this restaurant.
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Doomed; marked for death; as good as dead.
- "You come back here this instant! Oh, you're dead, mister!"
Full and complete (usually applied to nouns involving lack of motion, sound, activity, or other signs of life).
Exact; on the dot.
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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?
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Devoid of living things; barren.
- Behold the substance from which all things draw their energy, the bright Spirit of the Globe, without which it cannot live, but must grow cold and dead as the dead moon. — 1886
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Without emotion; impassive.
- She stood with dead face and limp arms, unresponsive to my plea.
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Without interest to one of the senses; dull; flat.
- a dead glass of soda.
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Not in play.
- Once the ball crosses the foul line, it's dead.
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Experiencing pins and needles (paresthesia).
- After sitting on my hands for a while, my arms became dead.
Past, bygone, vanished.
(Internet) Expresses an emotional reaction associated with hyperbolic senses of die.
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(Internet) Dying of laughter.
- Lmao I’m dead this was me to my fiancé since I found out in the car and my son was in the back seat 😭 — 2023
(Internet) Expresses shock, second-hand embarrassment, etc.
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Unproductive; fallow.
- dead fields
Stationary; static; immobile or immovable.
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So hated or offensive as to be absolutely shunned, ignored, or ostracized.
- He is dead to me.
Constructed so as not to reflect or transmit sound; soundless; anechoic.
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Intentionally designed so as not to impart motion or power.
- A dead axle, also called a lazy axle, is not part of the drivetrain, but is instead free-rotating.
Lying so near the hole that the player is certain to hole it in the next stroke.
(slang) Tagged out.
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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) Indifferent to; having no obligation toward; no longer subject to or ruled by (sin, guilt, pleasure, etc).
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Of a syllable in languages such as Thai and Burmese: ending abruptly.
- […] syllable is dead, the tone will depend on whether the vowel is short or long. — 2011
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(no longer used) Bringing death; deadly.
- You breathe these dead news in as dead an ear. — 1596

adverb4

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(informal) Very, absolutely, extremely.
- I knew once a Scotch sailmaker who was certain, dead sure, there were people in Mars. — 1899
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(informal) As if dead.
- I was tired of reading, and dead sleepy. — 1849
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Suddenly and completely.
- He stopped dead.
- She cut me dead again at the last party.
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(informal) Exactly.
- He hit the target dead in the centre.

verb4

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To make dead; to deaden; to deprive of life, force, or vigour.
- Heaven's stern decree, / With many an ill, hath numb'd and deaded me. — 1614
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To prevent by disabling; to stop.
- “What a man should do, when finds his natural impotency dead him in spiritual works” — 1826
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(slang) To discontinue or put an end to (something).
- "I thought I told you to shut up," said Jesus. "I don't be laying up with chickenheads, so you need to dead that shit before you piss me the fuck off." — 2005
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(US, slang) To kill.
- I shoulda deaded it from genesis instead of hittin' the Guinnesses — 2004

noun4

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[plural only] Those who have died: dead people.
- Will the dead rise again?
- He will come again to judge the living and the dead.
Time when coldness, darkness, or stillness is most intense.
(informal) Clipping of deadlift.
(UK) (usually in the plural) Sterile mining waste, often present as many large rocks stacked inside the workings.

forms

deaded · deading · deads · deader · deadest

Phrases with dead

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