dead | |
1. adj. (not comparable) No longer living. | |
All of my grandparents are dead. | |
2. adj. (hyperbole) Figuratively, not alive; lacking life. | |
3. adj. (of another person) So hated that they are absolutely ignored. | |
He is dead to me. | |
4. adj. Doomed; marked for death (literally or as a hyperbole). | |
"You come back here this instant! Oh, when I get my hands on you, you're dead, mister!". | |
5. adj. Without emotion. | |
She stood with dead face and limp arms, unresponsive to my plea. | |
6. adj. Stationary; static. | |
the dead load on the floor | |
a dead lift | |
7. adj. Without interest to one of the senses; dull; flat. | |
dead air | |
a dead glass of soda. | |
8. adj. Unproductive. | |
dead time | |
dead fields | |
9. adj. (not comparable, of a machine, device, or electrical circuit) Completely inactive; currently 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. | |
10. adj. (of a battery) Unable to emit power, being discharged (flat) or faulty. | |
11. adj. (not comparable) Broken or inoperable. | |
That monitor is dead; don’t bother hooking it up. | |
12. adj. (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? | |
13. adj. (engineering) Not imparting motion or power by design. | |
the dead spindle of a lathe | |
a dead axle also called a lazy axle, is not part of the drivetrain, but is instead free-rotating | |
14. adj. (not comparable, sports) Not in play. | |
Once the ball crosses the foul line, it's dead. | |
15. adj. (not comparable, golf, of a golf ball) Lying so near the hole that the player is certain to hole it in the next stroke. | |
16. adj. (not comparable, baseball, slang) Tagged out. | |
17. adj. (not comparable) Full and complete. | |
dead stop | |
dead sleep | |
dead giveaway | |
dead silence | |
18. adj. (not comparable) Exact. | |
dead center | |
dead aim | |
a dead eye | |
a dead level | |
19. adj. Experiencing pins and needles (paresthesia). | |
After sitting on my hands for a while, my arms became dead. | |
20. adj. Constructed so as not to transmit sound; soundless. | |
a dead floor | |
21. adj. (obsolete) Bringing death; deadly. | |
22. adj. (legal) Cut off from the rights of a citizen; deprived of the power of enjoying the rights of property. | |
A person who is banished or who becomes a monk is civilly dead. | |
23. adv. (degree, informal, colloquial) Exactly. | |
dead right; dead level; dead flat; dead straight; dead left | |
He hit the target dead in the centre. | |
24. adv. (degree, informal, colloquial) Very, 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; dead scared; dead solid; dead b | |
25. adv. Suddenly and completely. | |
He stopped dead. | |
26. adv. (informal) As if dead. | |
dead tired; dead quiet; dead asleep; dead pale; dead cold; dead still | |
27. n. (singulare tantum, often with "the") Time when coldness, darkness, or stillness is most intense. | |
The dead of night. The dead of winter. | |
28. n. (with "the", a demonstrative, or a possessive) Those who have died. | |
Have respect for the dead. | |
The villagers are mourning their dead. | |
The dead are always with us, in our hearts. | |
29. v. To prevent by disabling; stop. | |
30. v. To make dead; to deaden; to deprive of life, force, or vigour. | |
31. v. To kill. | |