dead

A2
Pronunciation
/diːd/
/diːd/
Noun
3 definition(s)
1 Definition

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

Example Sentences
  • Have respect for the dead.
2 Definition

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

Example Sentences
  • The dead of night. The dead of winter.
3 Definition

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

Verb
3 definition(s)
1 Definition

To prevent by disabling; stop.

2 Definition

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

3 Definition

To kill.

Adjective
23 definition(s)
1 Definition

No longer living.

Example Sentences
  • All of my grandparents are dead.
2 Definition

Figuratively, not alive; lacking life.

3 Definition

(of another person) So hated that they are absolutely ignored.

Example Sentences
  • He is dead to me.
4 Definition

Doomed; marked for death (literally or as a hyperbole).

Example Sentences
  • "You come back here this instant! Oh, you're dead, mister!"
5 Definition

Without emotion.

Example Sentences
  • She stood with dead face and limp arms, unresponsive to my plea.
6 Definition

Stationary; static.

Example Sentences
  • a dead lift
7 Definition

Without interest to one of the senses; dull; flat.

Example Sentences
  • a dead glass of soda.
8 Definition

Unproductive.

Example Sentences
  • dead fields
9 Definition

(of a machine, device, or electrical circuit) Completely inactive; currently without power; without a signal.

Example Sentences
  • Now that the motor's dead you can reach in and extract the spark plugs.
10 Definition

(of a battery) Unable to emit power, being discharged (flat) or faulty.

11 Definition

Broken or inoperable.

Example Sentences
  • That monitor is dead; don’t bother hooking it up.
12 Definition

No longer used or required.

Example Sentences
  • Is this beer glass dead?
13 Definition

Not imparting motion or power by design.

Example Sentences
  • A dead axle, also called a lazy axle, is not part of the drivetrain, but is instead free-rotating.
14 Definition

Not in play.

Example Sentences
  • Once the ball crosses the foul line, it's dead.
15 Definition

(of a golf ball) Lying so near the hole that the player is certain to hole it in the next stroke.

16 Definition

(1800s) Tagged out.

17 Definition

Full and complete.

Example Sentences
  • dead giveaway
18 Definition

Exact.

Example Sentences
  • a dead eye
19 Definition

Experiencing pins and needles (paresthesia).

Example Sentences
  • After sitting on my hands for a while, my arms became dead.
20 Definition

Constructed so as not to transmit sound; soundless.

Example Sentences
  • a dead floor
21 Definition

Bringing death; deadly.

22 Definition

Cut off from the rights of a citizen; deprived of the power of enjoying the rights of property.

Example Sentences
  • A person who is banished or who becomes a monk is civilly dead.
23 Definition

(often with "to") Indifferent to, no longer subject to or ruled by (sin, guilt, pleasure, etc).

Adverb
4 definition(s)
1 Definition

(degree) Exactly.

Example Sentences
  • He hit the target dead in the centre.
2 Definition

(degree) Very, absolutely, extremely.

Example Sentences
  • 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
3 Definition

Suddenly and completely.

Example Sentences
  • He stopped dead.
4 Definition

As if dead.

Example Sentences
  • dead tired; dead quiet; dead asleep; dead pale; dead cold; dead still