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To deal effectively with something difficult.
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To cut and form a mitred joint in wood or metal.
(falconry) To clip the beak or talons of a bird.
A long, loose cloak worn by a priest or bishop on ceremonial occasions.
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*1890 , (Oscar Wilde), The Picture of Dorian Gray , ch. XI:
*:He possessed a gorgeous cope of crimson silk and gold-thread damask, figured with a repeating pattern of golden pomegranates set in six-petalled formal blossoms, beyond which on either side was the pine-apple device wrought in seed-pearls.
Any covering such as a canopy or a mantle.
The "vault" or "canopy" of the skies, heavens etc.
* Milton
*, II.12:
(construction) A covering piece on top of a wall exposed to the weather, usually made of metal, masonry, or stone and sloped to carry off water.
(foundry) The top part of a sand casting mold.
An ancient tribute due to the lord of the soil, out of the lead mines in Derbyshire, England.
To cover (a joint or structure) with coping.
To form a cope or arch; to bend or arch; to bow.
* Holland
(obsolete) To bargain for; to buy.
(obsolete) To exchange or barter.
(obsolete) To make return for; to requite; to repay.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To match oneself against; to meet; to encounter.
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* Philips
(obsolete) To encounter; to meet; to have to do with.
* Shakespeare
(not comparable) No longer living.
(hyperbole) Figuratively, not alive; lacking life
* 1600 , (William Shakespeare), (As You Like It) , Act III, Scene 3:
(of another person) So hated that they are absolutely ignored.
Without emotion.
Stationary; static.
Without interest to one of the senses; dull; flat.
Unproductive.
Completely inactive; without power; without a signal.
(not comparable) Broken or inoperable.
(not comparable) No longer used or required.
(not comparable, sports) Not in play.
Tagged out.
(not comparable) Full and complete.
(not comparable) Exact.
Experiencing pins and needles (paresthesia).
(informal) (Certain to be) in big trouble.
Constructed so as not to transmit sound; soundless.
(obsolete) Bringing death; deadly.
(legal) Cut off from the rights of a citizen; deprived of the power of enjoying the rights of property.
(engineering) Not imparting motion or power.
(lb) Exactly right.
(lb) Very, absolutely, extremely, suddenly.
As if dead.
* (and other bibliographic particulars) (Charles Dickens)
(in the singular) Time when coldness, darkness, or stillness is most intense.
(in the plural) Those who have died.
(archaic) Formerly, "be dead" was used instead of "have died" as the perfect tense of "die".
To prevent by disabling; stop.
* 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.
To make dead; to deaden; to deprive of life, force, or vigour.
* Chapman
(UK, transitive, slang) To kill.
* 2006 , Leighanne Boyd, Once Upon A Time In The Bricks (page 178)
* 2008 , Marvlous Harrison, The Coalition (page 106)
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English
Etymology 1
From (etyl)Verb
(cop)- I thought I would never be able to cope with life after the amputation, but I have learned how to be happy again.
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Synonyms
* (to deal effectively with) handle, manage, withstandEtymology 2
From (etyl)Noun
(en noun)- a hundred and sixty priests all in their copes
- the starry cope of heaven
- Who perceiveth and seeth himselfe placed here,farthest from heavens coape , with those creatures, that are the worst of the three conditions; and yet dareth imaginarily place himselfe above the circle of the Moone, and reduce heaven under his feet.
- (Knight)
- (De Colange)
Verb
(cop)- Some bending down and coping to ward the earth.
Etymology 3
Verb
(cop)- (Spenser)
- Three thousand ducats due unto the Jew, / We freely cope your courteous pains withal.
- I love to cope him in these sullen fits.
- They say he yesterday coped Hector in the battle, and struck him down.
- Host coped with host, dire was the battle.
- Horatio, thou art e'en as just a man / As e'er my conversation coped withal.
Anagrams
* * ----dead
English
Adjective
(er)- All of my grandparents are dead .
- 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.
- He is dead to me.
- She stood with dead face and limp arms, unresponsive to my plea.
- the dead''' load on the floor''; ''a '''dead lift .
- dead''' air''; ''a '''dead glass of soda .
- dead''' time''; '''''dead fields ; also in compounds.
- 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.
- 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 ?
- Once the ball crosses the foul line, it's dead .
- dead''' stop''; '''''dead''' sleep''; '''''dead''' giveaway''; '''''dead silence
- dead''' center''; '''''dead''' aim''; ''a '''dead''' eye''; ''a '''dead level
- After sitting on my hands for a while, my arms became dead .
- "You come back here this instant! Oh, when I get my hands on you, you're dead , mister!"
- a dead floor
- (Shakespeare)
- A person who is banished or who becomes a monk is civilly dead .
- the dead spindle of a lathe
Quotations
* (English Citations of "dead")Synonyms
* See alsoAntonyms
* alive * livingAdverb
(-)- dead''' right''; '''''dead''' level''; '''''dead''' flat''; '''''dead''' straight''; '''''dead left
- He hit the target dead in the centre.
- 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 ;
- dead''' tired''; '''''dead''' quiet''; '''''dead''' asleep''; '''''dead''' pale''; '''''dead''' cold''; '''''dead still
- I was tired of reading, and dead sleepy.
Noun
(dead)- The dead''' of night.'' ''The '''dead of winter.
- Have respect for the dead .
Synonyms
* (those who have died) the deceasedVerb
(en verb)- "I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead [????????] in vain." Galatians 2:21, King James Version (1611).
- “What a man should do, when finds his natural impotency dead him in spiritual works”
- Heaven's stern decree, / With many an ill, hath numbed and deaded me.
- 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.