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Noun
Definition: people who are no longer living; "they buried the dead"
Definition: a time when coldness (or some other quality associated with death) is intense; "the dead of winter"
Definition: Time when coldness, darkness, or stillness is most intense.
Definition: (usually in the plural) Sterile mining waste, often present as many large rocks stacked inside the workings.
Verb
Definition: To prevent by disabling; stop.
Adjective
Definition: no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life; "the nerve is dead"; "a dead pallor"; "he was marked as a dead man by the assassin"
Definition: not showing characteristics of life especially the capacity to sustain life; no longer exerting force or having energy or heat; "Mars is a dead planet"; "dead soil"; "dead coals"; "the fire is dead"
Definition: very tired; "was all in at the end of the day"; "so beat I could flop down and go to sleep anywhere"; "bushed after all that exercise"; "I'm dead after that long trip"
Definition: unerringly accurate; "a dead shot"; "took dead aim"
Definition: physically inactive; "Crater Lake is in the crater of a dead volcano of the Cascade Range"
Definition: (followed by `to') not showing human feeling or sensitivity; unresponsive; "passersby were dead to our plea for help"; "numb to the cries for mercy"
Definition: devoid of physical sensation; numb; "his gums were dead from the novocain"; "she felt no discomfort as the dentist drilled her deadened tooth"; "a public desensitized by continuous television coverage of atrocities"
Definition: lacking acoustic resonance; "dead sounds characteristic of some compact discs"; "the dead wall surfaces of a recording studio"
Definition: not surviving in active use; "Latin is a dead language"
Definition: lacking resilience or bounce; "a dead tennis ball"
Definition: out of use or operation because of a fault or breakdown; "a dead telephone line"; "the motor is dead"
Definition: no longer having force or relevance; "a dead issue"
Definition: the complete stoppage of an action; "came to a dead stop"
Definition: drained of electric charge; discharged; "a dead battery"; "left the lights on and came back to find the battery drained"
Definition: devoid of activity; "this is a dead town; nothing ever happens here"
Definition: No longer living. (Also used as a noun.)
Adverb
Definition: completely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers; "an absolutely magnificent painting"; "a perfectly idiotic idea"; "you're perfectly right"; "utterly miserable"; "you can be dead sure of my innocence"; "was dead tired"; "dead right"
Definition: Exactly.