Definitions
of dead
1. [adj] - devoid of physical sensation 2. [adj] - lacking acoustic resonance 3. [adj] - not yielding a return 4. [adj] - unerringly accurate 5. [adj] - out of use or operation because of a fault or breakdown 6. [adj] - not surviving in active use 7. [adj] - lacking resilience or bounce 8. [adj] - no longer in force or use 9. [adj] - no longer having force or relevance 10. [adj] - drained of electric charge 11. [adj] - lacking animation or excitement or activity 12. [adj] - not showing characteristics of life especially the capacity to sustain life 13. [adj] - no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life 14. [adj] - physically inactive 15. [adj] - devoid of activity 16. [n] - a time when coldness (or some other quality associated with death) is intense 17. [n] - people who are no longer living
Quotes
- Example use of the word dead1. they buried the dead 2. the dead of winter 3. this is a dead town 4. nothing ever happens here 5. Crater Lake is in the crater of a dead volcano of the Cascade Range 6. the nerve is dead 7. a dead pallor 8. he was marked as a dead man by the assassin 9. no longer exerting force or having energy or heat 10. Mars is a dead planet 11. a dead battery 12. dead soil 13. dead coals 14. the fire is dead 15. the party being dead we left early 16. it was a lifeless party until she arrived 17. discharged 18. a dead battery 19. left the lights on and came back to find the battery drained 20. a dead issue 21. inactive 22. a defunct (or dead) law 23. a defunct organization 24. a dead tennis ball 25. Latin is a dead language 26. a dead telephone line 27. the motor is dead 28. a dead shot 29. took dead aim 30. dead capital 31. idle funds 32. dead sounds characteristic of some compact discs 33. the dead wall surfaces of a recording studio 34. numb 35. his gums were dead from the novocain 36. she felt no discomfort as the dentist drilled her deadened tooth 37. a public desensitized by continuous television coverage of atrocities
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