DEAD — ТЛУМАЧЕННЯ
dead
People who are no longer living.
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- They buried the dead.
A time when coldness (or some other quality associated with death) is intense.
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- The dead of winter.
Devoid of activity.
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- This is a dead town; nothing ever happens here.
Physically inactive.
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- Crater Lake is in the crater of a dead volcano of the Cascade Range.
No longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life.
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- The nerve is dead.
- A dead pallor.
- He was marked as a dead man by the assassin.
Not showing characteristics of life especially the capacity to sustain life; no longer exerting force or having energy or heat.
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- Mars is a dead planet.
- A dead battery.
- Dead soil.
- Dead coals.
- The fire is dead.
Not endowed with life.
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- The inorganic world is inanimate.
- Inanimate objects.
- Dead stones.
Lacking animation or excitement or activity.
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- The party being dead we left early.
- It was a lifeless party until she arrived.
Drained of electric charge; discharged.
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- A dead battery.
- Left the lights on and came back to find the battery drained.
No longer having force or relevance.
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- A dead issue.
No longer in force or use; inactive.
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- A defunct (or dead) law.
- A defunct organization.
Lacking resilience or bounce.
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- A dead tennis ball.
Not surviving in active use.
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- Latin is a dead language.
Out of use or operation because of a fault or breakdown.
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- A dead telephone line.
- The motor is dead.
Unerringly accurate.
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- A dead shot.
- Took dead aim.
Not yielding a return.
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- Dead capital.
- Idle funds.
Lacking acoustic resonance.
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- Dead sounds characteristic of some compact discs.
- The dead wall surfaces of a recording studio.
Devoid of physical sensation; numb.
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- His gums were dead from the novocain.
- She felt no discomfort as the dentist drilled her deadened tooth.
- A public desensitized by continuous television coverage of atrocities.
Completely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers.
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- An absolutely magnificent painting.
- A perfectly idiotic idea.
- You're perfectly right.
- Utterly miserable.
- You can be dead sure of my innocence.
- Was dead tired.
- Dead right.
Quickly and without warning.
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- He stopped suddenly.
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