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The Meaning of dead
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(a.) Deprived of life; -- opposed to alive and living; reduced to that state of a being in which the organs of motion and life have irrevocably ceased to perform their functions; as, a dead tree; a dead man.
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(a.) Destitute of life; inanimate; as, dead matter.
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(a.) Resembling death in appearance or quality; without show of life; deathlike; as, a dead sleep.
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(a.) Still as death; motionless; inactive; useless; as, dead calm; a dead load or weight.
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(a.) So constructed as not to transmit sound; soundless; as, a dead floor.
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(a.) Unproductive; bringing no gain; unprofitable; as, dead capital; dead stock in trade.
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(a.) Lacking spirit; dull; lusterless; cheerless; as, dead eye; dead fire; dead color, etc.
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(a.) Monotonous or unvaried; as, a dead level or pain; a dead wall.
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(a.) Sure as death; unerring; fixed; complete; as, a dead shot; a dead certainty.
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(a.) Bringing death; deadly.
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(a.) Wanting in religious spirit and vitality; as, dead faith; dead works.
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(a.) Flat; without gloss; -- said of painting which has been applied purposely to have this effect.
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(a.) Not brilliant; not rich; thus, brown is a dead color, as compared with crimson.
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(a.) Cut off from the rights of a citizen; deprived of the power of enjoying the rights of property; as, one banished or becoming a monk is civilly dead.
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(a.) Not imparting motion or power; as, the dead spindle of a lathe, etc. See Spindle.
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(adv.) To a degree resembling death; to the last degree; completely; wholly.
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(n.) The most quiet or deathlike time; the period of profoundest repose, inertness, or gloom; as, the dead of winter.
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(n.) One who is dead; -- commonly used collectively.
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(v. t.) To make dead; to deaden; to deprive of life, force, or vigor.
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(v. i.) To die; to lose life or force.
Synonyms
bushed(p)
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numb(p)
,
dead(p)
,
dead(a)
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idle
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deadened
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stagnant
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drained
,
all in(p)
,
utter
,
beat(p)
,
wild
,
out of work
,
unused
,
jobless
,
light
,
loose
,
groundless
,
unfounded
,
baseless
,
unwarranted
,
knackered
,
shortly
,
curtly
,
on the spur of the moment
,
perfectly
,
suddenly
,
short
,
absolutely
,
of a sudden
,
utterly
,
unawares
,
abruptly
,
all of a sudden
,
asleep(predicate)
,
at peace(predicate)
,
at rest(predicate)
,
deceased
,
departed
,
gone
,
assassinated
,
bloodless
,
exsanguine
,
exsanguinous
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brain dead
,
breathless
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inanimate
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pulseless
,
cold
,
d.o.a.
,
deathlike
,
deathly
,
defunct
,
doomed
,
executed
,
fallen
,
late(prenominal)
,
lifeless
,
exanimate
,
murdered
,
nonviable
,
slain
,
stillborn
,
stone-dead
Antonyms
living
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profitable
,
active
,
running(a)
,
living(a)
,
in play(p)
,
liveborn
,
imprecise
,
uncomplete
,
reverberant
,
operative
,
incomplete
,
rested
,
vital
,
current
,
charged
,
alive(p)
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sensitive
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extant
,
live
,
elastic
,
viable
Rhymes
abed
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aforesaid
,
ahead
,
airhead
,
armstead
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arrowhead
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bankhead
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beachhead
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bed
,
bedspread
,
behead
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biomed
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bled
,
blockhead
,
bloodshed
,
bobsled
,
bread
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bred
,
bridgehead
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broadhead
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brodhead
,
bulkhead
,
bullhead
,
calfed
,
coed
,
copperhead
,
cornbread
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deadhead
,
deathbed
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dragonhead
,
dread
,
dred
,
dredd
,
drumhead
,
ed
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egghead
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embed
,
farmstead
,
featherbed
,
fed
,
figurehead
,
flatbed
,
flathead
,
fled
,
fred
,
freda
,
ged
,
gingerbread
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godhead
,
hampstead
,
hardhead
,
head
,
hollingshead
,
homestead
,
horsehead
,
hotbed
,
imbed
,
inbred
,
infrared
,
instead
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interbred
,
jed
,
lead
,
led
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letterhead
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loggerhead
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marblehead
,
masthead
,
med
,
misled
,
misread
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ned
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nedd
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newlywed
,
numed
,
overfed
,
overhead
,
pled
,
purebred
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read
,
reade
,
red
,
redd
,
redhead
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retread
,
riverbed
,
riverhead
,
roundhead
,
said
,
sayed
,
schwed
,
seabed
,
sffed
,
shead
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shed
,
shedd
,
shred
,
skinhead
,
sled
,
sledd
,
spearhead
,
sped
,
spread
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stead
,
steelhead
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sudafed
,
swed
,
szwed
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ted
,
thickhead
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thoroughbred
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thread
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trailhead
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tread
,
unread
,
unsaid
,
unted
,
unwed
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warhead
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watershed
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wed
,
wedd
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wehde
,
wellhead
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whitehead
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widespread
,
woodshed
,
zed