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From Old English dēad
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Dead (comparative er, superlative est)
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- Template:Not comparable No longer living.
- All of my grandparents are dead.
- Figuratively, not alive; lacking life
- 1600, William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act III, Scene 3:
- 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, William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act III, Scene 3:
- (idiomatic) (Of another person) be dead to (person) : So hated by that they are absolutely ignored.
- He is dead to me.
- Without emotion.
- She stood with dead face and limp arms, unresponsive to my plea.
- Stationary; static.
- the dead load on the floor; a dead lift.
- Without interest to one of the senses; dull; flat.
- dead air; a dead glass of soda.
- Unproductive.
- dead time; dead fields; also in compounds.
- Template:Not comparable (Of a machine, device, or electrical circuit) Completely inactive; without power; without a signal.
- 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.
- Template:Not comparable Broken or inoperable.
- That monitor is dead; don’t bother hooking it up.
- Template:Not comparable 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 ?
- Template:Not comparable Not in play.
- Once the ball crosses the foul line, it’s dead.
- Template:Not comparable Full and complete.
- dead stop; dead sleep; dead giveaway; dead silence
- Template:Not comparable Exact.
- dead center; dead aim; a dead eye; a dead level
- Experiencing pins and needles (paresthesia).
- After sitting on my hands for a while, my arms became dead.
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- See WikiSaurus:dead
Antonyms[]
- alive
- living
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Dead ({{{1}}})
- singular Time when coldness, darkness, or stillness is most intense.
- The dead of night. The dead of winter.
- plural Those who have died.
- Have respect for the dead.
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- (those who have died): the deceased
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Dead (not comparable)
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- Exactly right.
- He hit the target dead in the centre.
- (slang) Very, absolutely, extremely, suddenly.
- She’s dead sexy.
- He’s dead stupid.
- I’m dead tired.
- That’s dead sure!
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to Dead (third-person singular simple present dead, present participle ed, simple past and past participle -)
- (transitive) to prevent by disabling; stop
- 1826: The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Edward Reynolds, Lord Bishop of Norwich, collected by Edward Reynolds, Benedict Riveley, and Alexander Chalmers. pp. 227. London: B. Holdsworth.
- “What a man should do, when finds his natural impotency dead him in spiritual works”
- 1826: The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Edward Reynolds, Lord Bishop of Norwich, collected by Edward Reynolds, Benedict Riveley, and Alexander Chalmers. pp. 227. London: B. Holdsworth.
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Anagrams[]
- adde,
- Edda
Old English[]
Etymology[]
Proto-Germanic *daudoz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰautós, originally a past participle. Cognate with Old Frisian dād (West Frisian [[dead#Template:Fy|dead]]), Old Saxon dōd (Dutch dood), Old High German tōt (German tot), Old Norse dauðr (Swedish död), Gothic 𐌳𐌰𐌿𐌸𐍃 (dauþs).
Pronunciation[]
- IPA: /dæːɑd/
Adjective[]
dēad
Declension[]
Template:Ang-adjdec-long
Related terms[]
- dēaþ
See also[]
- steorfan
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