Main entry: dead
Definition: people who are no longer living
Usage: they buried the dead
Main entry: dead
Definition: a time when coldness (or some other quality associated with death) is intense
Usage: the dead of winter
Main entry: dead
Definition: devoid of activity
Usage: this is a dead town; nothing ever happens here
Main entry: dead
Definition: physically inactive
Usage: Crater Lake is in the crater of a dead volcano of the Cascade Range
Main entry: dead
Definition: no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life
Usage: the nerve is dead; a dead pallor; he was marked as a dead man by the assassin
Main entry: dead
Definition: not showing characteristics of life especially the capacity to sustain life; no longer exerting force or having energy or heat
Usage: Mars is a dead planet; dead soil; dead coals; the fire is dead
Definition: drained of electric charge; discharged
Usage: a dead battery; left the lights on and came back to find the battery drained
Definition: complete
Usage: came to a dead stop; utter seriousness
Main entry: dead
Definition: no longer having force or relevance
Usage: a dead issue
Main entry: dead
Definition: out of use or operation because of a fault or breakdown
Usage: a dead telephone line; the motor is dead
Main entry: dead
Definition: lacking resilience or bounce
Usage: a dead tennis ball
Main entry: dead
Definition: not surviving in active use
Usage: Latin is a dead language
Definition: not circulating or flowing
Usage: dead air; dead water; stagnant water
Main entry: dead
Definition: unerringly accurate
Usage: a dead shot; took dead aim
Definition: not yielding a return
Usage: dead capital; idle funds
Main entry: dead
Definition: lacking acoustic resonance
Usage: dead sounds characteristic of some compact discs; the dead wall surfaces of a recording studio
Definition: devoid of physical sensation; numb
Usage: 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
Definition: (followed by `to') not showing human feeling or sensitivity; unresponsive
Usage: passersby were dead to our plea for help; numb to the cries for mercy
Main entry: bushed, all in, beat, dead
Definition: very tired
Usage: 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
Main entry: utterly, dead, perfectly, absolutely
Definition: completely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers
Usage: an absolutely magnificent painting; a perfectly idiotic idea; you're perfectly right; utterly miserable; you can be dead sure of my innocence; was dead tired; dead right
Main entry: suddenly, dead, short, abruptly
Definition: quickly and without warning
Usage: he stopped suddenly