Dead
//dɛd//
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The word "dead" can be used as adjective, adjective, noun, verb, adverb, adverb and slang.
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Dead Sea Deadhead Deadwood Queen Anne's dead alveolar dead space anatomic dead space beat a dead horse better dead than red better to be late than be dead on time bottom dead center brain dead brain-dead braindead card-dead civilly dead clinically dead come back from the dead cut someone dead dead 'n' buried dead 'un dead against dead air dead amiss dead and buried dead and gone dead angle dead arm syndrome dead as Hector dead as a dodo dead as a doorknob dead as a doornail dead as a herring dead as a kipper dead as a mackerel dead as ditch-water dead asleep dead ball dead bat dead beat dead bedroom dead bell dead bird dead block dead body dead bolt dead cake dead calm dead cat dead cat bounce dead center dead centre dead cert dead click dead code dead coloring dead colouring dead comet dead donkey dead door dead dove dead drop dead drunk dead duck dead end dead finish dead first dead fish dead flat dead fly biscuit dead freight dead from the neck up dead furrow dead giveaway dead ground dead hand dead hang dead heat dead horse dead house dead ice dead in the train dead in the water dead inside dead internet theory dead key dead language dead last dead leaf dead leg dead letter dead letter office dead level dead line dead link dead load dead loss dead mall dead man dead man walking dead man's arm dead man's brake dead man's fingers dead man's float dead man's hand dead man's handle dead man's penny dead man's rope dead man's switch dead march dead marine dead meat dead media dead melt dead men dead men can tell no tales dead men tell no tales dead men's bells dead men's fingers dead men's shoes dead metaphor dead money dead name dead nuts dead of night dead of winter dead oil dead on dead on arrival dead on one's feet dead on the vine dead or alive dead pan dead person walking dead pixel dead plate dead pledge dead pool dead president dead reckoning dead ringer dead rise dead rising dead roll dead room dead rubber dead run dead section dead set dead set against dead shot dead silence dead sleep dead soldier dead space dead spot dead stand dead stick dead sticking dead stock dead stop dead tail dead time dead tired dead to rights dead to the world dead tree dead tree edition dead wagon dead wall dead water dead week dead weight dead white European male dead wife flashback dead wife montage dead wind dead woman walking dead wood dead wrong dead yard dead zone dead-air space dead-alive dead-and-alive dead-ball era dead-beat dead-blow dead-born dead-bug dead-cat bounce dead-center dead-centered dead-clothes dead-drop dead-end dead-ender dead-eye dead-eye Dick dead-eyed dead-handed dead-handedness dead-hearted dead-heartedly dead-heartedness dead-in-shell dead-leg dead-light dead-march dead-melt dead-name dead-naming dead-nuts dead-on dead-pan dead-pay dead-red dead-ringer dead-rope dead-set dead-stock dead-stroke dead-stroke hammer dead-tree dead-tree edition dead-wrong deadass deadbeat deadblow deadbolt deadborn deadcart deadend deader than a doornail deader than disco deadeye deadfall deadhanded deadheader deadheading deadhearted deadheartedly deadheartedness deadhouse deadish deaditor deadland deadlatch deadleg deadlight deadlike deadline deadlock deadman deadname deadness deadnettle deadpan deadrise deadstart deadstick deadstock deadtime deadvoice deadwork deadworks do not eat double-dead meat draw dead drier than a dead dingo's donger drop dead drop-dead dry as a dead dingo's donga dry as a dead dingo's donger fit to wake the dead flog a dead horse flog a dead pony genetic dead end half dead half-dead halfdead heavy as a dead donkey kill someone dead knock dead lantern of the dead leave for dead like kicking dead whales down the beach link-dead live end dead end living dead medium dead more dead than alive my cold, dead hands nearly-dead netdead nondead nose-dead not be caught dead on dead dogs only dead fish go with the flow over my dead body parallel dead space physiologic dead space play dead pre-dead predead put the dead wood on raise from the dead raise the dead red dead man's fingers red dead-nettle red-handed redhanded rise from the dead semidead sit dead-red stone dead stone-dead stop dead temporal dead zone the dead to wake the dead top dead center trumpet of the dead undead wake the dead wake up dead walking dead wouldn't be caught dead wouldn't be seen dead you're a long time dead
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(to be) at peace (to be) at the end of the road (to be) belly up (to be) bereft of life (to be) brown bread (to be) checked out (to be) dead and gone (to be) dead as a dodo (to be) dead as a doorknob (to be) dead as a doornail (to be) dead as a duck (to be) dead as a haddock (to be) dead as a hammer (to be) dead as a herring (to be) dead as a mackerel (to be) dead as a nit (to be) dead as a pickled herring (to be) dead as a stump (to be) dead as a turd (to be) dead as a turd in a milk bucket (to be) dead as dishwater (to be) dead as mutton (to be) dead as stone (to be) dead as wood (to be) deader than dead (to be) deader than road kill (to be) food for worms (to be) gone away (to be) in Abraham's bosom (to be) in heaven (to be) in paradise (to be) in the grave (to be) no longer with us (to be) offed (to be) passed away (to be) pushing up the daisies (to be) resting in peace (to be) six feet under (to be) stone dead (to be) taking a dirt nap (to be) washed up (to be) wasted (to be) with God (to be) worm food (to go) feet first (to have) bitten the big one (to have) bitten the dust (to have) bought the farm (to have) ceased to be (to have) gone on to one's reward (to have) gone to be with Jesus (to have) gone to heaven (to have) gone to one's final resting place (to have) gone to paradise (to have) gone to sing with the angels (to have) gone to the Great Beyond (to have) gone to the next life (to have) joined the choir invisible (to have) kicked the bucket (to have) met one's end (to have) met one's maker (to have) passed on (to have) run down the curtain (to have) seen the reaper (to have) shuffled off this mortal coil (to have) snuffed it (to) sleep with the fishes cemetery deaden deadliness deadly deadness death death die kill undead
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absolutely abstract adjective after after life after living alive being being deceased being dying body broken coffin coffins coldness completely condition corpse corpse state darkness deaden deadliness deadly deadness death deceased decomposing diagnosis die done doomed dying emotion ending exact expired expired done extinct extremely finality flat funeral funerals grave graves graveyards hate hole hyperbole ignore inactive inoperable intense kill killed lack life life process lifeless literally live living mark medical medical condition morgues mortification mot mot living not nothing paresthesia passed passed away passing passing on physical physical state pins and needles play post post living power process resting resting state rip state state being stillness stroke suddenly undead very zombie zombies
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asleep assassinated assassinated at peace at peace at rest bloodless brain dead brain dead breathless cold cold complete complete d.o.a. deathlike deathlike deathly deceased defunct defunct departed doomed doomed exanimate exanimate executed executed exsanguine exsanguinous exsanguinous extinct extinct fallen fallen gone inactive inactive inanimate inelastic inelastic inoperative inoperative insensitive insensitive late late lifeless lifeless murdered murdered noncurrent noncurrent nonextant nonresonant nonviable nonviable out out of play out of play precise precise pulseless pulseless slain slain standing stillborn stillborn stone dead stone-dead tired uncharged unprofitable unprofitable unreverberant unreverberant
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