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dead
1. mod. quiet and uneventful; boring. The day was totally dead.
2. mod. very tired. I went home from the office, dead as usual.
3. mod. dull; lifeless; flat. This meal is sort of dead because I am out of onions.
4. mod. no longer effective; no longer of any consequence. That guy is dead—out of power.
5. mod. [of an issue] no longer germane; no longer of any importance. Forget it! It’s a dead issue.
- (as) dead as a dodo
- (as) dead as a doornail
- (as) silent as the dead
- a dead cat bounce
- a dead cat on the line
- a dead cert
- a dead duck
- a dead end
- a dead giveaway
- a dead letter
- a dead loss
- a dead ringer for somebody
- a dead ringer for someone
- a dead weight
- a live dog is better than a dead lion
- as dead as a doornail
- at a dead end
- bang dead to rights
- be (as) dead as a doornail
- be a dead cert
- be a dead loss
- be a dead ringer for
- be as dead as a dodo
- be as good as dead
- be better off dead
- be brain dead
- be dead and buried
- be dead from the neck up
- be dead from the waist down
- be dead in the water
- be dead meat
- be dead on (one's) feet
- be dead on the vine
- be dead set against something
- be dead set on something
- be dead to the world
- be flogging a dead horse
- be half-dead
- be the dead spit of (someone)
- beat a dead horse
- better dead than red
- brain-dead
- bring (someone or something) to a dead end
- bring to a dead end
- catch (one) dead to rights
- caught dead, wouldn't be
- come back from the dead
- come to a dead end
- cut (one) dead
- cut dead
- cut somebody dead
- cut someone dead
- cut the deadwood out
- dead
- dead ahead
- dead air
- dead and buried
- dead and buried/gone
- dead and gone
- dead as a dodo
- dead as a doornail
- dead as a/the dodo
- dead as mutton
- dead asleep
- dead beat
- dead broke
- dead cat on the line
- dead center
- dead certain
- dead cinch
- dead drunk
- dead duck
- dead easy
- dead end
- dead from the neck up
- dead giveaway
- dead heat
- dead horse
- dead in (someone's or something's) tracks
- dead in one's tracks
- dead in or an animal's tracks
- dead in the water
- dead issue
- dead last
- dead letter
- dead loss
- dead man
- dead man walking
- Dead Man's Hand
- dead marine
- dead meat
- Dead men tell no tales
- dead men's shoes
- dead 'n' buried
- dead of
- dead of night
- dead of winter
- dead on
- dead on (one's) feet
- dead on arrival
- dead on feet
- dead on one's feet
- dead on target
- dead on your feet
- dead one
- dead president
- dead ringer
- dead ringer for someone
- dead serious
- dead set against
- dead set against (someone or something)
- dead soldier
- dead tired
- dead to rights
- dead to the world
- dead weight
- dead wood
- dead wrong
- deadbeat dad
- dead-catty
- deaded
- dead-end kid
- dead-stick landing
- dead-tree edition
- dead-tree format
- dead-tree press
- deadwood
- drop dead
- Drop dead!
- drop-dead
- drop-dead date
- drop-dead gorgeous
- drop-dead list
- faint dead away
- flog a dead horse
- from my cold, dead hands
- from the dead
- give up for dead
- have (one) dead to rights
- have dead to rights
- have someone dead to rights
- in a dead heat
- in earnest
- in the dead of night
- in the dead of winter
- It's ill waiting for dead men's shoes
- kill something stone dead
- knock (one) dead
- knock dead
- knock 'em dead
- knock somebody dead
- knock someone dead
- leave for dead
- Let the dead bury the dead
- make a dead set at
- mean enough to steal a penny off a dead man's eyes
- more dead than alive
- Never speak ill of the dead
- on dead center
- over my dead body
- Over my dead body!
- play dead
- Queen Anne is dead
- Queen Anne's dead
- quick and the dead
- raise from the dead
- rise from the dead
- roll over and play dead
- silent as the dead
- somebody wouldn't be seen/caught dead...
- step into dead men's shoes
- stone dead
- stop (dead) in (one's) tracks
- stop (someone or something) (dead) in its/(one's) tracks
- stop (someone) dead
- stop cold
- stop dead
- stop dead in tracks
- stop one dead in tracks
- stop someone in their tracks
- stop something in its tracks
- take for dead
- taken for dead
- the dead hand
- the dead hand of (something)
- the dead hand of something
- the dead of night
- the dead of winter
- to wake the dead, loud enough
- wait for dead men's shoes
- wake the dead
- would not be seen dead
- wouldn't be caught dead (doing something)
- wouldn't be seen dead
- wouldn't be seen dead (doing something)
- wouldn't be seen dead in