Adjective

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

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