Dead

Definition: Dead

Dead

Adjective

1. 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".

2. 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"; "a dead battery"; "dead soil"; "dead coals"; "the fire is dead".

3. (informal) 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".

4. Unerringly accurate; "a dead shot"; "took dead aim".

5. Physically inactive; "Crater Lake is in the crater of a dead volcano of the Cascade Range".

6. Total; "dead silence"; "utter seriousness".

7. Not endowed with life; "the inorganic world is inanimate"; "inanimate objects"; "dead stones".

8. (followed by `to') not showing human feeling or sensitivity; unresponsive; "passersby were dead to our plea for help"; "numb to the cries for mercy".

9. 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".

10. : lacking acoustic resonance; "dead sounds characteristic of some compact discs"; "the dead wall surfaces of a recording studio".

11. : not yielding a return; "dead capital"; "idle funds".

12. : not circulating or flowing; "dead air"; "dead water"; "stagnant water".

13. : out of use or operation because of a fault or breakdown; "a dead telephone line"; "the motor is dead".

14. : not surviving in active use; "Latin is a dead language".

15. : lacking resilience or bounce; "a dead tennis ball".

16. : no longer in force or use; inactive; "a defunct (or dead) law"; "a defunct organization".

17. : no longer having force or relevance; "a dead issue".

18. : sudden and complete; "came to a dead stop".

19. : drained of electric charge; discharged; "a dead battery"; "left the lights on and came back to find the battery drained".

20. : lacking animation or excitement or activity; "the party being dead we left early"; "it was a lifeless party until she arrived".

21. : devoid of activity; "this is a dead town; nothing ever happens here".

Adverb

1. Quickly and without warning; "he stopped suddenly".

2. 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".

Noun

1. People who are no longer living; "they buried the dead".

2. A time when coldness (or some other quality associated with death) is intense; "the dead of winter".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "dead" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Etymology: Dead \Dead\ (d[e^]d), adjective. [Old English ded, dead, deed, Anglo-Saxon de['a]d; akin to Old Saxon d[=o]d, Dutch dood, German todt, tot, Icelandic dau[eth]r, Swedish & Danish d["o]d, Gothic daubs; properly past participle of an old verb meaning to die. See Die, and compare to Death.]. (references)

Satire

Computing

19th Century Satire

Dream Interpretation

Electrical Engineering

Literature

Mining

Slang

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Dead

Completeness

Exhaustive, radical, sweeping, thorough-going; dead.

Killing

Mortal, fatal, lethal; dead, deadly; mortiferous, lethiferous; unhealthy; internecine; suicidal.

Physical Inertness

Adjective: inert, inactive, passive; torpid; sluggish, dull, heavy, flat, slack, tame, slow, blunt; unreactive; lifeless, dead, uninfluential.

Physical Insensibility

Adjective: insensible, unfeeling, senseless, impercipient, callous, thick-skinned, pachydermatous; hard, hardened; case hardened; proof, obtuse, dull; anaesthetic; comatose, paralytic, palsied, numb, dead.

Crosswords: Dead

Lucien, I thought you were dead. (A Time to Kill; writing credit: Akiva Goldsman)

Jane, what if he worships you? What if he's got a shrine with pictures of you surrounded by dead people's heads and stuff (American Beauty; writing credit: Alan Ball)

Not unless you can raise the dead. (The Sweet Hereafter; writing credit: Atom Egoyan)

There was a time that I would have wished you dead but your shame shall be your torture and your torture will be your life (Seven Years in Tibet; writing credit: Becky Johnston)

Just because you're a big movie star, wild parties, swimming pools, you expect every girl to fall in a dead faint at your feet (Singin' in the Rain; writing credit: Betty Comden; Adolph Green)

I'm wanted dead or alive (Wanted Dead or Alive; performing artist: Bon Jovi)

Who told tomorrow Tuesday's dead (Tuesday's Dead; performing artist: Cat Stevens)

And sooner or later you know I'll be dead (Loser; performing artist: 3 Doors Down)

Shot gun dead and I'll come on home yeah (MONY MONY; performing artist: Billy Idol)

So when you're dead and gone (Stay Together For The Kids; performing artist: Blink-182)

Pity is for living, envy is for dead. (references; author: Mark Twain)

Either this man is dead or my watch has stopped. (references; author: Groucho Marx)

May you get to Heaven a half hour before the Devil knows you're dead. (references; author: Irish Proverb)

Living dead (references; author: unknown)

Ban on Soliciting Dead in Trotwood (references; author: unknown)

Dead Heat (2002)

In the Steps of a Dead Man (1974)

99 and 44/100% Dead (1974)

The Thirsty Dead (1974)

Crypt of the Living Dead (1973)

Dead Puppies (performing artist: Ogden Edsel)

Dead Rock n Roll Stars (performing artist: Wally Pleasant)

I'll Be Mellow When I'm Dead (performing artist: Weird Al Yankovic)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• Dead Sea Bromine Company Ltd.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Dead Sea Works Limited: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• The 2003 World Market Forecasts for Imported Fresh and Frozen Dead and Edible Poultry Offals except Liver (reference)

• The 2000 Import and Export Market for Fresh and Frozen Dead and Edible Poultry Offals except Liver in Czech Republic (reference)

• The 2002 World Forecasts of Fresh and Frozen Dead and Edible Poultry Offals except Liver Export Supplies (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Dante to Dead Man Walking: One Reader's Journey Through the Christian Classics (reference)

• Dead Ringer (A Laura Fleming Mystery) (reference)

• Dead Ringer (Harlequin Intrigue, No 157) (reference)

• Dead Ringer (Micro Adventure No 9) (reference)

• Dead Ringer (The Gunsmith, No 101) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Dead Mountain Echo (reference)

• Knock Em Dead (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Better Off Dead (reference)

• The Dirty Harry Collection (Dirty Harry/Magnum Force/The Enforcer/Sudden Impact/The Dead Pool) (reference)

• Dead Poets Society (reference)

• Drop Dead Fred (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Maurice Ravel: Daphnis & Chloe/Pavanne For A Dead Princess (reference)

• Black From the Dead (reference)

• Dead Man Walking (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Mexico's Day of the Dead (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Dead On DONB-L Heavy Duty Bag Set and Back Support (Large) (reference)

• Porter-Cable 51099 Dead Bolt Installation Kit (1-1/2" Boring Bit, 1-1/2" I.D. Bushing, Dead Lock Locator) (reference)

• Stanley 57-532 21-Ounce Dead Blow Hammer (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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12 hrs post exposure to normal S. mansoni cercariae, dermis of vaccinated C57Bl/6 mouse shows dead Schistosoma mansoni schistosomulum surrounded by an intense eosinophil-rich inflammatory cell infiltrate. Histopathology, parasite. Credit: CDC.

The poliovirus has an affinity for the anterior horn motor neurons of the cervical and lumbar regions of the spinal cord. Death of these cells causes muscle weakness of those muscles once innervated by the now dead neurons. Credit: CDC.

Dead walrus - Odobenus rosmarus divergens -found floating in sea being taken on board ship for studying. Credit: NOAA's Ark (Animals).

Polar bears with dead seal. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Currents carry many dead things to Punuk Island making it the graveyard of the Bering Sea. Credit: America's Coastlines.

A dead fish floats on the surface after the April 7th Swanson Creek oil spill. Credit: America's Coastlines.

Hauling a dead walrus onto the Bureau of Commercial Fisheries Ship BROWN BEAR. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Dead end for some - opportunity for others. Credit: Fisheries.

The great slaughter is almost over, with only one group of now dead tuna left to be hauled aboard on the eastern side of the trap. Credit: Fisheries.

Scott Gudes buries a dead pelican that was removed from the mangroves where it was entangled in discarded monofilament. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

The law could not restore life to my dead carcass: the loss was irreparable; which to prevent, the law of nature gave me a right to destroy him, who had put himself into a state of war with me, and threatened my destruction. (Second Treatise of Government)

The brave men, living and dead who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. (The Gettysburg Address)

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If, as I can't help suspecting, the dead also feel the pains of separation (and this may be one of their purgatorial sufferings), then for both lovers, and for all pairs of lovers without exception, bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love

The very peculiar use, here made of a dead mouse, comes from real life

MARLEY WAS DEAD, TO BEGIN with

But the past was not dead.

To gather laurels and to steal the shoes from a dead man, seems to us impossible to the same hand

When they were dead they lay on their sides

But dead they are, and, devilish slave, by thee

Well, once my old man hung up a dead coyote in that tree

Twelve of our crew were dead by immoderate labor and ill food, the rest were in a very weak condition

The dead and for the most part unmerchantable wood behind my house, and the driftwood from the pond, have supplied the remainder of my fuel

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Health

Bat necropsy-- A "necropsy" is an examination of a dead animal. (references)

The dead bat was recovered from the yard and tested--it had rabies. (references)

Half of the patients diagnosed with CHF will be dead within 5 years. (references)

Business

A niche market can indeed be created from a dead market if the product is special. (references)

In June Leonicio Pintor Garcia, a correspondent of the daily El Sol in Chilpancingo, Guerrero, was found dead in or near the Ajolotero river. (references)

The growing awareness of environmental problems will certainly increase the recycling and treatment of dead household batteries, expired medicines, pesticides, containers of toxic and flammable materials, oils and emulsions collected separately from municipal solid waste. (references)

Civil Liberties

Colombia

Parra later was found dead. (references)

Mexico

Flores later was found dead, in what appeared to be an execution-style murder. (references)

Iran

Baha'is are not allowed to bury and honor their dead in keeping with their religious tradition. (references)

Economic History

Tanzania

The number of dead remains under dispute. (references)

El Salvador

Roughly 65,200 hectares were flooded, and the Salvadoran Government pronounced 374 people dead or missing. (references)

Madagascar

Most people practice traditional religions, which tend to emphasize links between the living and the dead. (references)

Human Rights

Colombia

The wounded man later was found dead. (references)

Peru

On May 9, he was found dead in his cell. (references)

Bolivia

Another security official is missing and presumed dead. (references)

Minorities

Croatia

The mother later was transported to the county hospital, where the newborn was pronounced dead. (references)

Guinea

In January 2000, violent clashes between Christian and Muslim villages in the forest region left 30 persons dead. (references)

Bangladesh

On November 16, Principal Gopal Krishna Mahuri of Nazirhat College in Chittagong was shot dead by unidentified assailants. (references)

Political Economy

Sri Lanka

The clashes left large numbers of civilians dead or injured and displaced more than 150,000 persons. (references)

Guinea

In March 1998, rioting broke out after the GOG demolished houses in the Ratoma commune, illegally constructed on public land, leaving nine dead and 100,000 homeless. (references)

Tanzania

CUF demonstrations in January 2001, declared illegal by the government, led to the use of force by security units that left at least 23 people dead on Pemba island, the opposition stronghold. (references)

Political Rights

Yemen

On February 25, a reported shootout between GPC and Islaah supporters in Ibb governorate left 6 persons dead and 10 injured. (references)

Equatorial Guinea

The legislative elections that should have been held in the fall of 1998 were postponed until March 1999. The new electoral census was completed in December 1998, but not all of the opposition parties agreed to sign it due to irregularities, such as the inclusion of the underaged, the dead, and nonresidents, and the exclusion of opposition party members. (references)

Trade

Jordan

Other exceptions include Dead Sea salts, which require an export license. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Upon the dead

A lion dead to the Lord

Expressions using "dead": A dead dog ♦ a dead letter ♦ a dead market ♦ apparently dead ♦ arise from dead ♦ arrive dead on time ♦ as a dead ♦ as dead as a doornail ♦ as dead as dodo ♦ as dead as mutton ♦ as good as dead ♦ at dead of night ♦ baptism for the dead ♦ be a dead duck ♦ be as good as dead ♦ be dead ♦ be dead and buried ♦ be dead as a doornail ♦ be dead broke ♦ be dead from the neck up ♦ be dead on arrival ♦ be dead scared ♦ be dead set ♦ be dead set on doing smth. ♦ be dead tired ♦ be dead to the world ♦ be dead with hunger ♦ be in dead earnest ♦ beat a dead horse ♦ become dead set on smth. ♦ brain dead ♦ cardiac dead ♦ clinically dead ♦ come to a dead stop ♦ Cult of the Dead Cow ♦ cut smb. dead ♦ dead against ♦ Dead ahead ♦ dead alive ♦ dead ammeter beat ♦ dead anchor block ♦ dead anchorage ♦ dead and gone ♦ Dead angle ♦ dead animal ♦ dead arm ♦ dead asleep ♦ dead axle ♦ dead band ♦ dead battery ♦ dead beat ♦ dead beef attack ♦ dead birth ♦ Dead block ♦ dead body ♦ dead broke ♦ dead calm ♦ dead capital ♦ dead center ♦ dead centre ♦ dead cert ♦ dead certain ♦ dead certainty ♦ dead code ♦ dead color ♦ Dead coloring ♦ dead colour ♦ dead cut ♦ dead dogs don't bite ♦ Dead door ♦ dead drunk ♦ dead earnest ♦ dead end ♦ dead end kid ♦ dead eye ♦ dead faint ♦ dead file ♦ dead fire ♦ Dead flat ♦ Dead freight ♦ dead from the neck ♦ dead frost ♦ dead fuels ♦ dead furrow ♦ dead gold ♦ Dead ground ♦ dead hand ♦ dead hand of the past ♦ Dead head ♦ dead heat ♦ Dead horse ♦ dead house ♦ dead knot ♦ dead lake ♦ dead language ♦ dead languages ♦ dead leaf ♦ dead letter ♦ dead letter box ♦ dead letter office ♦ dead level. Additional references.

Beginning with "dead": dead-ass, dead-at-birth, dead-baits, dead-ball, dead-ball line, dead-beat, dead-cart, dead-centre, dead-drunk, dead-end, dead-end', dead-end street, dead-ending, dead-ends, dead-even, dead-eye, dead-eyed, dead-faced, dead-fall, dead-flat, dead-from-the-nerves-down, dead-head, dead-headed, dead-heading, Dead-hearted, Dead-heartedness, dead-heat, dead-heated, dead-heaters, dead-important, dead-leg, dead-letter, Dead-letter office, dead-line, dead-lines, dead-lock, dead-locked, dead-locks, dead-looking, dead-man, dead-man's-fingers, dead-meat, dead-men's-fingers, dead-metaphor, dead-my, dead-office, dead-on, dead-one, dead-pan, dead-panning, Dead-pay, dead-penalty, dead-player, dead-pull, dead-reckoned, dead-reckoning, dead-ringer, Dead-Sea apple, dead-set against, dead-set on, dead-skin, dead-skinned, dead-spot, dead-straight, Dead-stroke, Dead-stroke hammer, dead-tree version, dead-walking, dead-weight, dead-weights, dead-white, dead-wood, dead-work.

Ending with "dead": drop-dead, long-dead, mediterranean-dead, now-dead.

Containing "dead": fat-bastard-with-a-beard-dead-in-the-bath, i-am-not-really-dead-but-just-popped-out-for-a-packet-of-fags, ink-and-dead-trees.

Afrikaans

dood (death, inanimate, late, lifeless). (various references)

Albanian

i thatë (arid, blain, dehydrated, dried, dry, empty, furuncle, lank, lathy, peaked, rainless, raw boned, scraggy, scrannel, scrawny, scrubby, sec, sere, short, skinny, slab-sided, slender, spare, spidery, thin, waterless, wizen, wizened), fare (at all, entirely, none, not at all, not in the least, nothing, plenty, quite, scarcely, spermatic, very, whatever, wholly), i fikur (exanimate, exhausted, extinguished, switched off, undone), i mpirë (asleep, benumbed, inert, lame, muscle bound, numb, obtuse, stale, torpid), i ngathët (angular, atonic, awkward, clumsy, cubbish, dawdler, dead alive, dull, dullish, footless, gauche, gawky, ham-fisted, heavy, heavy-handed, hulking, inept, laggard, languid, left handed, lubberly, lumbering, lymphatic, maladroit, oafish, pedestrian, poky, quick, shiftless, slack, torpid, ungainly, unhandy, unmoved, unready, unwieldy, wooden), i pajetë (dead alive, inanimate, lifeless, spiritless, vacuous), i palëvizshem, i pandjeshëm (hard-hearted, impassible, impassive, imperceptible, insensate, insensible, insensitive, insentient, insusceptible, unfeeling), i plotë (all out, big, broad, clear, close, complete, comprehensive, crowded, direct, dyed in the wool, entire, flush, fraught, full, gross, integral, out and out, outright, overall, perfect, plenary, Plumb, plummy, pregnant, radical, round, sheer, solid, thorough, thoroughgoing, total, unabbreviated, uncut, unquestioning, utter, whole), i qelbur (dirty, fetid, foetid, mangy, nasty, noisome, putrid, stinking), e ngordhur, i sigurt (assertive, assured, certain, clear, confident, dependable, fast, firm, foolproof, indubitable, infallible, positive, reliable, reliant, safe, secure, sound, sterling, sure, trusty, unerring), vajtur, i vdekur (asleep, deceased, decedent, defunct, departed, extinct, gangrenous, gathered to one's fathers, lifeless, stone-dead), jo i gjallë, kulm (acme, apex, bloom, climax, crescendo, crisis, crown, culmination, extremity, flower, heat, height, heyday, meridian, nab, payoff, peak, pink, pinnacle, prime, summit, superlative, tiptop, top, vertex, zenith), mesi (back, messiah), pa minerale të dobishme, pa tension, plotësisht (absolutely, all, at large, clear, cold, completely, diametrically, entirely, fully, heartily,