dead
/diːd//diːd/noun
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(with "the", a demonstrative, or a possessive) Those who have died.
Example: Have respect for the dead.
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(often with "the") Time when coldness, darkness, or stillness is most intense.
Example: The dead of night. The dead of winter.
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(usually plural) Sterile mining waste, often present as many large rocks stacked inside the workings.
verb
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To prevent by disabling; stop.
To make dead; to deaden; to deprive of life, force, or vigour.
To kill.
adjective
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No longer living.
Example: All of my grandparents are dead.
Figuratively, not alive; lacking life.
(of another person) So hated that they are absolutely ignored.
Example: He is dead to me.
Doomed; marked for death (literally or as a hyperbole).
Example: "You come back here this instant! Oh, you're dead, mister!"
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(degree) Exactly.
Example: He hit the target dead in the centre.
(degree) Very, absolutely, extremely.
Example: 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
Suddenly and completely.
Example: He stopped dead.
As if dead.
Example: dead tired; dead quiet; dead asleep; dead pale; dead cold; dead still