Dead

The man who stops learning is as good as dead.

All of my grandparents are dead.

Have respect for the dead.

The villagers are mourning their dead.

The dead are always with us, in our hearts.

Lily was pronounced dead at the scene.

A storekeeper downtown was shot dead last evening.

raise the dead

wake the dead

a dead planet

Behold the substance from which all things draw their energy, the bright Spirit of the Globe, without which it cannot live, but must grow cold and dead as the dead moon.

Was it possible to exist upon a dead world?

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

“Finished the last one at three this morning, apart from bits and bobs and poppers. Quite frankly, I'm dead!”

He is dead to me.

I didn't have it in myself to go with grace And you're the hero flying around, saving face And if I'm dead to you, why are you at the wake?

"You come back here this instant! Oh, you're dead, mister!"

You're dead. A million and one thoughts pounded her at once. But one overpowered all the others. This time you're dead.

She stood with dead face and limp arms, unresponsive to my plea.

the dead load on the floor

a dead lift

a dead glass of soda.

He stopped, took a swig of the dead champagne. It was like 7-Up.

dead fields

The auditorium opens and the seats fill. As ever, there's a brief, grey dead time while Wheeler waits for all the machinery of the performance to spin up. The anxious feeling is stronger than usual today. It grips him, an uncharacteristic urge to run away. Sure, he thinks. I could just junk my career, right now. Pack it in and make for the stage door. Maybe the taxi'll still be there.

Then shall the Times that were be Times no more; and it may be that the old, dead days shall return from beyond the Rim, and we who have wept for them shall see those days again, as one who, returning from long travel to his home, comes suddenly on dear, remembered things.

For a Friday night, it's really dead in this restaurant.

OK, the circuit's dead. Go ahead and cut the wire.

Now that the motor's dead you can reach in and extract the spark plugs.

The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel.

Joker: Everything cuts out after that. No comm traffic at all. Just goes dead. There's nothing.

That monitor is dead; don’t bother hooking it up.

There are several dead laws still on the books regulating where horses may be hitched.

Is this beer glass dead?

No mark of any kind should ever be made on a dead manuscript.

In this paper, we survey the set of techniques found in the wild that are intended to prevent data-scrubbing operations from being removed during dead store elimination.

the dead spindle of a lathe

A dead axle, also called a lazy axle, is not part of the drivetrain, but is instead free-rotating.

Once the ball crosses the foul line, it's dead.

dead giveaway

dead silence

dead center

a dead level

After sitting on my hands for a while, my arms became dead.

Lmao I’m dead this was me to my fiancé since I found out in the car and my son was in the back seat 😭

a dead floor

You breathe these dead news in as dead an ear.

A person who is banished or who becomes a monk is civilly dead.

He was dead to the law. Whatever account others might make of it, yet, for his part, he was dead to it. […] But though he was thus dead to the law, yet he […] was far from thinking himself discharged from his duty to God' on the contrary, he was dead to the law, that he might live unto God.

But he died to the guilt of sin—to the guilt of his people's sins which he had taken upon him; and they, dying with him, as is above declared, die to sin precisely in the same sense in which he died to it. […] He was not justified from it till his resurrection, but from that moment he was dead to it. When he shall appear the second time, it will be "without sin."

[…] syllable is dead, the tone will depend on whether the vowel is short or long.

dead right; dead level; dead flat; dead straight; dead left

He hit the target dead in the centre.

Across the region known as the Landes, this stretch of line is almost dead level, and the only curve is one of 2¼ miles radius through the station of Labouheyre.

Independent tests later confirmed [the figures] to be accurate, with Car & Driver seeing 159mph (254kph), 0.60 in five seconds dead, and an amazingly high 0.97g.

And because the tunnel is dead straight, it's perfect for reaching high speeds.

dead wrong; dead set; dead serious; dead drunk; dead broke; dead earnest; dead certain; dead slow; dead sure; dead simple; dead honest; dead accurate; dead easy; dead scared; dead solid; dead black; dead white; dead empty

I knew once a Scotch sailmaker who was certain, dead sure, there were people in Mars.

He stopped dead.

She cut me dead again at the last party.

dead tired; dead quiet; dead asleep; dead pale; dead cold; dead still

I was tired of reading, and dead sleepy.

Near-synonym: nadir

the dead of night

the dead of winter

the quick and the dead

Will the dead rise again?

He will come again to judge the living and the dead.

1826, The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Edward Reynolds, Lord Bishop of Norwich, collected by Edward Reynolds, Benedict Riveley, and Alexander Chalmers. pp. 227. London: B. Holdsworth. “What a man should do, when finds his natural impotency dead him in spiritual works”

Heaven's stern decree, / With many an ill, hath numb'd and deaded me.

I shoulda deaded it from genesis instead of hittin' the Guinnesses

This dude at the club was trying to kill us so I deaded him, and then I had to collect from Spice.

“What, you was just gonna dead him because if that's the case then why the fuck we getting the money?” Sha asked annoyed.

TOMMY:”Honestly, I’d love to help you with that but I’ve got a surplus of motherfuckers that I need to dead right now.”

"I thought I told you to shut up," said Jesus. "I don't be laying up with chickenheads, so you need to dead that shit before you piss me the fuck off."

"This might be kinda beside the point right now," I said carefully, settling into the chair across from him, "but it's probably time to dead all that open-door no-gun shit, huh?"

"Shorty, whatchu got in your pocket? Let me see that hat." ¶ "Nah, man. Dead that." Out would come the .32. ¶ "Oh, aight. You got that, shorty, you got that."