1. adjective /dɛd/
a) No longer living.
All of my grandparents are dead.
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.
2. noun /dɛd/
The dead of night. The dead of winter.
b) Those who have died.
Have respect for the dead.
3. adverb /dɛd/
a) Exactly right.
He hit the target dead in the centre.
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”
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