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Definition
adj (English)
1. (usually not comparable) No longer living; deceased. (Also used as a noun.)Examples: "All of my grandparents are dead."; "Have respect for the dead."; "The villagers are mourning their dead."not-comparableusually
2. (usually not comparable) Devoid of living things; barren.Examples: "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."; "Was it possible to exist upon a dead world?"not-comparableusually
3. (hyperbolic) Figuratively, not alive; lacking life.Examples: "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."excessivenot-comparableusually
4. (of another person) So hated or offensive as to be absolutely shunned, ignored, or ostracized.Examples: "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?"not-comparableusually
5. (of a place) Lacking usual activity; unexpectedly quiet or empty of people.Examples: "For a Friday night, it's really dead in this restaurant."Antonyms: alive, bustling#Adjective, busy, crowded#Adjective, hopping#Adjective, lively, noisynot-comparableusually
6. (not comparable, of a machine, device, or electrical circuit) Completely inactive; currently without power; without a signal; not live.Examples: "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."; "The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel."not-comparableusually
adv (English)
1. (degree, informal, colloquial) Exactly.Examples: "dead right; dead level; dead flat; dead straight; dead left"; "He hit the target dead in the centre."; "Across the region known as the Landes, this stretch of line is almost dead level, and the only curve is one of 2¼ miles radius through the station of Labouheyre."colloquialinformalnot-comparable
2. (degree, informal, colloquial) Very, absolutely, extremely.Examples: "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 black; dead white; dead empty"; "I knew once a Scotch sailmaker who was certain, dead sure, there were people in Mars."colloquialinformalnot-comparable
3. (informal) As if dead.Examples: "dead tired; dead quiet; dead asleep; dead pale; dead cold; dead still"; "I was tired of reading, and dead sleepy."informalnot-comparable
noun (English)
1. (often with "the") Time when coldness, darkness, or stillness is most intense.Examples: "Near-synonym: nadir"; "the dead of night"; "the dead of winter"oftenuncountablewith-definite-article
2. (with "the") Those who have died: dead people.Examples: "the quick and the dead"; "Will the dead rise again?"; "He will come again to judge the living and the dead."Synonyms: deceased#Noun, departed#NounAntonyms: living#Noun, ;, quick#Noununcountablewith-definite-article
noun (English)
1. (UK) (usually in the plural) Sterile mining waste, often present as many large rocks stacked inside the workings.UK
2. (bodybuilding, colloquial) Clipping of deadlift.abbreviationalt-ofclippingcolloquial
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To prevent by disabling; to stop.Examples: "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”"transitive
2. (transitive) To make dead; to deaden; to deprive of life, force, or vigour.Examples: "Heaven's stern decree, / With many an ill, hath numb'd and deaded me."transitive
3. (transitive, UK, US, slang) To kill.Examples: "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."; "“What, you was just gonna dead him because if that's the case then why the fuck we getting the money?” Sha asked annoyed."UKUSslangtransitive
4. (transitive, African-American Vernacular, slang, by extension) To discontinue or put an end to (something).Examples: ""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?""; ""Shorty, whatchu got in your pocket? Let me see that hat." ¶ "Nah, man. Dead that." Out would come the .32. ¶ "Oh, aight. You got that, shorty, you got that.""broadlyslangtransitive
noun (English)
1. (organic chemistry) Initialism of diethyl azodicarboxylate.abbreviationalt-ofinitialismuncountable
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