deadadj/dɛd/

• 1

  No longer living; deceased. (Also used as a noun.)

  • All of my grandparents are dead.
  • Have respect for the dead.
• 2

  Devoid of living things; barren.

  • a dead planet
  • Behold the substance from which all things draw their energy, the bright Spirit of the Globe, without which it cannot live, but must grow cold and dead as the dead moon.
• 3

  Figuratively, not alive; lacking life.

  • 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.
• 4

  Utterly exhausted.

  • “Finished the last one at three this morning, apart from bits and bobs and poppers. Quite frankly, I'm dead!”
• 5

  So hated or offensive as to be absolutely shunned, ignored, or ostracized.

  • He is dead to me.
  • I didn't have it in myself to go with grace And you're the hero flying around, saving face And if I'm dead to you, why are you at the wake?
• 6

  Doomed; marked for death; as good as dead.

  • "You come back here this instant! Oh, you're dead, mister!"
  • You're dead. A million and one thoughts pounded her at once. But one overpowered all the others. This time you're dead.
• 7

  Without emotion; impassive.

  • She stood with dead face and limp arms, unresponsive to my plea.
• 8

  Stationary; static; immobile or immovable.

  • the dead load on the floor
  • a dead lift

deadadv/dɛd/

• 1

  informalExactly.

  • dead right; dead level; dead flat; dead straight; dead left
  • He hit the target dead in the centre.
• 2

  informalVery, absolutely, extremely.

  • dead wrong; dead set; dead serious; dead drunk; dead broke; dead earnest; dead certain; dead slow; dead sure; dead simple; dead honest; dead accurate; dead easy
  • I knew once a Scotch sailmaker who was certain, dead sure, there were people in Mars.
• 3

  Suddenly and completely.

  • He stopped dead.
  • She cut me dead again at the last party.
• 4

  informalAs if dead.

  • dead tired; dead quiet; dead asleep; dead pale; dead cold; dead still
  • I was tired of reading, and dead sleepy.

deadnoun/dɛd/

• 1

  Time when coldness, darkness, or stillness is most intense.

  • Near-synonym: nadir
  • the dead of night

deadnoun/dɛd/

• 1

  Those who have died: dead people.

  • the quick and the dead
  • Will the dead rise again?

deadnoun/dɛd/

• 1

  (usually in the plural) Sterile mining waste, often present as many large rocks stacked inside the workings.

deadverb/dɛd/

• 1

  To prevent by disabling; to 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”
• 2

  To make dead; to deaden; to deprive of life, force, or vigour.

  • Heaven's stern decree, / With many an ill, hath numb'd and deaded me.
• 3

  slangTo kill.

  • I shoulda deaded it from genesis instead of hittin' the Guinnesses
  • This dude at the club was trying to kill us so I deaded him, and then I had to collect from Spice.
• 4

  slangTo discontinue or put an end to (something).

  • "I thought I told you to shut up," said Jesus. "I don't be laying up with chickenheads, so you need to dead that shit before you piss me the fuck off."
  • "This might be kinda beside the point right now," I said carefully, settling into the chair across from him, "but it's probably time to dead all that open-door no-gun shit, huh?"

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