Dead (Adjective)
Meaning 1
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".
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Meaning 2
Physically inactive; "Crater Lake is in the crater of a dead volcano of the Cascade Range".
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Meaning 3
Drained of electric charge; discharged; "a dead battery"; "left the lights on and came back to find the battery drained".
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Meaning 4
Not yielding a return; "dead capital"; "idle funds".
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Meaning 5
Devoid of activity; "this is a dead town; nothing ever happens here".
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Meaning 6
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".
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Meaning 7
Unerringly accurate; "a dead shot"; "took dead aim".
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Meaning 8
No longer having force or relevance; "a dead issue".
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Meaning 9
The complete stoppage of an action; "came to a dead stop".
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Meaning 10
Out of use or operation because of a fault or breakdown; "a dead telephone line"; "the motor is dead".
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Meaning 11
Not circulating or flowing; "dead air"; "dead water"; "stagnant water".
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Meaning 12
Lacking resilience or bounce; "a dead tennis ball".
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Meaning 13
(followed by `to') not showing human feeling or sensitivity; unresponsive; "passersby were dead to our plea for help"; "numb to the cries for mercy".
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Meaning 14
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".
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Meaning 15
Lacking acoustic resonance; "dead sounds characteristic of some compact discs"; "the dead wall surfaces of a recording studio".
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Meaning 16
Not surviving in active use; "Latin is a dead language".
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Meaning 17
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".
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