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Definition dead

Etymology

From Middle English ded, deed, from Old English d?ad, from Proto-Germanic *daudaz. Compare West Frisian dead, dea, Dutch dood, German tot, Danish, Norwegian død, Norwegian Nynorsk daud.

Adjective

dead (comparative deader, superlative deadest)

  1. (not comparable) No longer living.
  2. (hyperbolic) Figuratively, not alive; lacking life.
  3. (of another person) So hated that they are absolutely ignored.
  4. Doomed; marked for death (literally or as a hyperbole).
  5. Without emotion.
  6. Stationary; static.
  7. Without interest to one of the senses; dull; flat.
  8. Unproductive.
  9. (not comparable, of a machine, device, or electrical circuit) Completely inactive; currently without power; without a signal.
  10. (of a battery) Unable to emit power, being discharged (flat) or faulty.
  11. (not comparable) Broken or inoperable.
  12. (not comparable) No longer used or required.
  13. (engineering) Not imparting motion or power by design.
  14. (not comparable, sports) Not in play.
  15. (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. (not comparable, baseball, slang, 1800s) Tagged out.
  17. (not comparable) Full and complete.
  18. (not comparable) Exact.
  19. Experiencing pins and needles (paresthesia).
  20. Constructed so as not to transmit sound; soundless.
  21. (obsolete) Bringing death; deadly.
  22. (law) Cut off from the rights of a citizen; deprived of the power of enjoying the rights of property.

Adverb

dead (not comparable)

  1. (degree, informal, colloquial) Exactly.
  2. (degree, informal, colloquial) Very, absolutely, extremely.
  3. Suddenly and completely.
  4. (informal) As if dead.

Noun

dead (uncountable)

  1. (often with "the") Time when coldness, darkness, or stillness is most intense.

dead pl (plural only)

  1. (with "the", a demonstrative, or a possessive) Those who have died.

Verb

dead (third-person singular simple present deads, present participle deading, simple past and past participle deaded)

  1. (transitive) To prevent by disabling; stop.
  2. (transitive) To make dead; to deaden; to deprive of life, force, or vigour.
  3. (Britain, transitive, slang) To kill.

Results 329 Words with the letters DEAD

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ADZED 16
DAWED 10
DAZED 16
FADED 10
JADED 16
WADED 10
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ADD 5
DAD 5
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DA 3
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