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| n. | 1. dead | people who are no longer living.; "they buried the dead" |
| ~ people | (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively.; "old people"; "there were at least 200 people in the audience" |
| ~ slain | people who have been slain (as in battle). |
| ~ dead person, dead soul, deceased, deceased person, decedent, departed | someone who is no longer alive.; "I wonder what the dead person would have done" |
| n. | 2. dead | a time when coldness (or some other quality associated with death) is intense.; "the dead of winter" |
| ~ time | an indefinite period (usually marked by specific attributes or activities).; "he waited a long time"; "the time of year for planting"; "he was a great actor in his time" |
| adj. | 3. dead | 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" |
| ~ at peace, deceased, at rest, departed, gone, asleep | dead.; "he is deceased"; "our dear departed friend" |
| ~ assassinated | murdered by surprise attack for political reasons.; "the 20th century has seen too many assassinated leaders" |
| ~ bloodless, exsanguine, exsanguinous | destitute of blood or apparently so.; "the bloodless carcass of my Hector sold" |
| ~ brain dead | having irreversible loss of brain function as indicated by a persistent flat electroencephalogram.; "was declared brain dead" |
| ~ pulseless, breathless, inanimate | appearing dead; not breathing or having no perceptible pulse.; "an inanimate body"; "pulseless and dead" |
| ~ cold | lacking the warmth of life.; "cold in his grave" |
| ~ d.o.a. | abbreviation for `dead on arrival' at the emergency room. |
| ~ deathlike, deathly | having the physical appearance of death.; "a deathly pallor" |
| ~ defunct | having ceased to exist or live.; "the will of a defunct aunt"; "a defunct Indian tribe" |
| ~ doomed | marked for certain death.; "the black spot told the old sailor he was doomed" |
| ~ executed | put to death as punishment.; "claimed the body of the executed traitor" |
| ~ fallen | killed in battle.; "to honor fallen soldiers" |
| ~ late | having died recently.; "her late husband" |
| ~ exanimate, lifeless | deprived of life; no longer living.; "a lifeless body" |
| ~ murdered | killed unlawfully.; "the murdered woman"; "lay a wreath on murdered Lincoln's bier" |
| ~ nonviable | not capable of living or developing successfully. |
| ~ slain | killed; `slain' is formal or literary as in.; "slain warriors"; "a picture of St. George and the slain dragon" |
| ~ stillborn | (of newborn infant) showing no signs of life at birth; not liveborn.; "a stillborn baby" |
| ~ stone-dead | as lifeless as a stone. |
| adj. | 4. dead | 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" |
| ~ extinct | (of e.g. volcanos) permanently inactive.; "an extinct volcano" |
| ~ out, extinct | being out or having grown cold.; "threw his extinct cigarette into the stream"; "the fire is out" |
| ~ lifeless | not having the capacity to support life.; "a lifeless planet" |
| ~ out of play | (of a ball).; "a ball that is out of play is dead" |
| adj. | 5. all in, beat, bushed, dead | 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" |
| ~ colloquialism | a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech. |
| ~ tired | depleted of strength or energy.; "tired mothers with crying babies"; "too tired to eat" |
| adj. | 6. dead | unerringly accurate.; "a dead shot"; "took dead aim" |
| ~ precise | sharply exact or accurate or delimited.; "a precise mind"; "specified a precise amount"; "arrived at the precise moment" |
| adj. | 7. dead | physically inactive.; "Crater Lake is in the crater of a dead volcano of the Cascade Range" |
| ~ extinct | (of e.g. volcanos) permanently inactive.; "an extinct volcano" |
| adj. | 8. dead, numb | (followed by `to') not showing human feeling or sensitivity; unresponsive.; "passersby were dead to our plea for help"; "numb to the cries for mercy" |
| ~ insensitive | deficient in human sensibility; not mentally or morally sensitive.; "insensitive to the needs of the patients" |
| adj. | 9. dead, deadened | 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" |
| ~ insensitive | not responsive to physical stimuli.; "insensitive to radiation" |
| adj. | 10. dead | lacking acoustic resonance.; "dead sounds characteristic of some compact discs"; "the dead wall surfaces of a recording studio" |
| ~ nonresonant, unreverberant | not reverberant; lacking a tendency to reverberate. |
| adj. | 11. dead, idle | not yielding a return.; "dead capital"; "idle funds" |
| ~ unprofitable | producing little or no profit or gain.; "deposits abandoned by mining companies as unprofitable" |
| adj. | 12. dead, stagnant | not circulating or flowing.; "dead air"; "dead water"; "stagnant water" |
| ~ standing | (of fluids) not moving or flowing.; "mosquitoes breed in standing water" |
| adj. | 13. dead | not surviving in active use.; "Latin is a dead language" |
| ~ extinct, nonextant | no longer in existence; lost or especially having died out leaving no living representatives.; "an extinct species of fish"; "an extinct royal family"; "extinct laws and customs" |
| adj. | 14. dead | lacking resilience or bounce.; "a dead tennis ball" |
| ~ inelastic | not elastic.; "economists speak of an inelastic price structure" |
| adj. | 15. dead | out of use or operation because of a fault or breakdown.; "a dead telephone line"; "the motor is dead" |
| ~ inoperative | not working or taking effect.; "an inoperative law" |
| adj. | 16. dead | no longer having force or relevance.; "a dead issue" |
| ~ noncurrent | not current or belonging to the present time. |
| adj. | 17. dead, utter | complete.; "came to a dead stop"; "utter seriousness" |
| ~ complete | having every necessary or normal part or component or step.; "a complete meal"; "a complete wardrobe"; "a complete set of the Britannica"; "a complete set of china"; "a complete defeat"; "a complete accounting" |
| adj. | 18. dead, drained | drained of electric charge; discharged.; "a dead battery"; "left the lights on and came back to find the battery drained" |
| ~ uncharged | of a particle or body or system; having no charge.; "an uncharged particle"; "an uncharged battery" |
| adj. | 19. dead | devoid of activity.; "this is a dead town; nothing ever happens here" |
| ~ inactive | lacking activity; lying idle or unused.; "an inactive mine"; "inactive accounts"; "inactive machinery" |
| adv. | 20. abruptly, dead, short, suddenly | quickly and without warning.; "he stopped suddenly" |
| adv. | 21. absolutely, dead, perfectly, utterly | 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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