| 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. | |
