Noun
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a time when coldness (or some other quality associated with death) is intense
"the dead of winter"
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people who are no longer living
"they buried the dead"
Adjective
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devoid of activity
"this is a dead town
nothing ever happens here"
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drained of electric charge
discharged
"a dead battery"
"left the lights on and came back to find the battery drained"
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complete
"came to a dead stop"
"utter seriousness"
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no longer having force or relevance
"a dead issue"
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out of use or operation because of a fault or breakdown
"a dead telephone line"
"the motor is dead"
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lacking resilience or bounce
"a dead tennis ball"
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not surviving in active use
"Latin is a dead language"
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not circulating or flowing
"dead air"
"dead water"
"stagnant water"
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not yielding a return
"dead capital"
"idle funds"
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lacking acoustic resonance
"dead sounds characteristic of some compact discs"
"the dead wall surfaces of a recording studio"
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devoid of physical sensation
numb
"his gums were dead from the novocain"
"she felt no discomfort as the dentist drilled her deadened tooth"
"a public desensitized by continuous television coverage of atrocities"
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(followed by `to') not showing human feeling or sensitivity
unresponsive
"passersby were dead to our plea for help"
"numb to the cries for mercy"
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physically inactive
"Crater Lake is in the crater of a dead volcano of the Cascade Range"
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unerringly accurate
"a dead shot"
"took dead aim"
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very tired
"was all in at the end of the day"
"so beat I could flop down and go to sleep anywhere"
"bushed after all that exercise"
"I'm dead after that long trip"
- all in -
not showing characteristics of life especially the capacity to sustain life
no longer exerting force or having energy or heat
"Mars is a dead planet"
"dead soil"
"dead coals"
"the fire is dead"
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no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life
"the nerve is dead"
"a dead pallor"
"he was marked as a dead man by the assassin"
Adverb
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completely and without qualification
used informally as intensifiers
"an absolutely magnificent painting"
"a perfectly idiotic idea"
"you're perfectly right"
"utterly miserable"
"you can be dead sure of my innocence"
"was dead tired"
"dead right"
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quickly and without warning
"he stopped suddenly"