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dead
1. Lacking any excitement, vitality, etc. This place is dead, man. Let's bounce. That restaurant is always dead during lunch hour. I have no idea how they stay open.
2. Exhausted to the point of no longer being able to function. I'm usually pretty dead by the time I get home after going to the gym after work, so I just eat dinner and go to bed. I could tell my players were giving it their best, but after 90 minutes, their legs were just dead.
3. No longer working at all due to a malfunction or breakdown. My computer is dead. I can't even turn it on.
4. Having been drained of all power, as of a battery. These batteries are dead. Do you have any new ones? My phone is dead, and it's going to take a while to charge it.
5. Absolutely. You'd better be dead certain about this decision, because you can't take it back.
6. Exact(ly). See that sign? The one dead ahead. You've got to hit the button in the dead center or else it won't work.
7. Abruptly or suddenly, and often without further movement. The deer stopped dead in its tracks when it heard me coming. He was able to stop the car dead on the edge of the cliff.
8. slang Defunct or having no power or possibility of coming into effect. That bill was dead even before it reached the senate—public opinion killed it.
9. No longer having any significance or bearing on anything. As far as I'm concerned, that's a dead issue, so let's stop discussing it.
10. Total or utter. There was dead silence in the room when she announced her resignation.
11. slang A term used to indicate that one thinks something is extremely funny (so much so that they've died laughing). Typically used as a hashtag on social media. OMG that's hilarious! #dead
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.
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- (as) dead as a dodo
- (as) dead as a doornail
- (as) dead as mutton
- (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 (dead) set on (something)
- 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 (someone or something)
- be dead set against something
- be dead set on (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
- 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 bounce
- 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 name
- dead naming
- 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 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
- deadhead
- deadneck
- dead-stick landing
- dead-tree edition
- dead-tree format
- dead-tree press
- deadwood
- don't speak ill of the dead
- 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
- get the (dead) needle
- give up for dead
- halt (someone or something) (dead) in its/(one's) tracks
- have (one) dead to rights
- have dead to rights
- have someone dead to rights
- I'm dead
- 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
- 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
- look like a (dead) ringer for (someone)
- loud enough to wake the dead
- make a dead set at
- make a dead set at (someone or something)
- make a dead set upon (someone or something)
- 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
- the quick and the dead
- 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 caught dead at (something)
- wouldn't be caught dead in (something)
- wouldn't be caught dead with
- wouldn't be seen dead
- wouldn't be seen dead (doing something)
- wouldn't be seen dead at (something)
- wouldn't be seen dead in
- wouldn't be seen dead in (something)
- wouldn't be seen dead with
- you shouldn't speak ill of the dead