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dead
1. adjective /dɛd/
a) No longer living.

All of my grandparents are dead.

b) Figuratively, not alive; lacking life

When a mans verses cannot be understood, nor a mans good wit seconded with the forward child, understanding, it strikes a man more dead than a great reckoning in a little room.

Ant: alive, living
2. noun /dɛd/
a) Time when coldness, darkness, or stillness is most intense.

The dead of night. The dead of winter.

b) Those who have died.

Have respect for the dead.

Syn: deceased
3. adverb /dɛd/
a) Exactly right.

He hit the target dead in the centre.

b) Very, absolutely, extremely, suddenly.

She’s dead sexy.

4. verb /dɛd/
to prevent by disabling; stop

“What a man should do, when finds his natural impotency dead him in spiritual works”

See Also: deaden, deadliness, deadly, deadness, death, the dead, undead

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