dead

  • (noun): (with "the", a demonstrative, or a possessive) Those who have died.
  • (noun): (often with "the") Time when coldness, darkness, or stillness is most intense.
  • (noun): (usually plural) Sterile mining waste, often present as many large rocks stacked inside the workings.
  • (verb): To prevent by disabling; stop.
  • (verb): To make dead; to deaden; to deprive of life, force, or vigour.
  • (verb): To kill.
  • (adjective): No longer living.
  • (adjective): Figuratively, not alive; lacking life.
  • (adjective): (of another person) So hated that they are absolutely ignored.
  • (adjective): Doomed; marked for death (literally or as a hyperbole).
  • (adjective): Without emotion.
  • (adjective): Stationary; static.
  • (adjective): Without interest to one of the senses; dull; flat.
  • (adjective): Unproductive.
  • (adjective): (of a machine, device, or electrical circuit) Completely inactive; currently without power; without a signal.
  • (adjective): (of a battery) Unable to emit power, being discharged (flat) or faulty.
  • (adjective): Broken or inoperable.
  • (adjective): No longer used or required.
  • (adjective): Not imparting motion or power by design.
  • (adjective): Not in play.
  • (adjective): (of a golf ball) Lying so near the hole that the player is certain to hole it in the next stroke.
  • (adjective): (1800s) Tagged out.
  • (adjective): Full and complete.
  • (adjective): Exact.
  • (adjective): Experiencing pins and needles (paresthesia).
  • (adjective): Constructed so as not to transmit sound; soundless.
  • (adjective): Bringing death; deadly.
  • (adjective): Cut off from the rights of a citizen; deprived of the power of enjoying the rights of property.
  • (adjective): (often with "to") Indifferent to, no longer subject to or ruled by (sin, guilt, pleasure, etc).
  • (adverb): (degree) Exactly.
  • (adverb): (degree) Very, absolutely, extremely.
  • (adverb): Suddenly and completely.
  • (adverb): As if dead.
  • Have respect for the dead.
  • The dead of night. The dead of winter.
  • All of my grandparents are dead.
  • He is dead to me.
  • "You come back here this instant! Oh, you're dead, mister!"