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rank|boy|c.|strong|398|dead|bring|returned|seems

Etymology
OE. d�ad.

Pronunciation
w:AHD|AHD: d�d
IPA|/d�d/
w:SAMPA|SAMPA: /dEd/
audio|en-us-dead.ogg|Audio (US)

Adjective
en-adj|er|est

1. notcomp Not alive; lacking life; no longer living.

#: All of my grandparents are dead.

1. notcomp italbrac|Of another person So hated by that they are absolutely ignored.

#: He is dead to me.

1. notcomp Fully and completely motionless.

#: Come to a dead stop.

1. Without emotion.

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

1. notcomp italbrac|Of a machine, device, or electrical circuit Completely inactive; without power.

#: 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.

1. notcomp broken|Broken or inoperable.

#: That monitor is dead; don�t bother hooking it up.

1. notcomp obsolete|Obsolete or no longer used or required.

#: There are several dead laws still on the books regulating where horses may be hitched.
#: Is this beer glass dead ?

1. notcomp sports Not in play.

#: Once the ball crosses the foul line, it�s dead.

<!--# cricket The state of the ball when not in play, and runs may not be scored and batsman|batsmen cannot be out.-->

1. notcomp context|baseball|slang An 1800s baseball term meaning a player who is tagged out.

Quotations
seecites

Synonyms
See WikiSaurus:dead

Antonyms
alive
living

Translations
trans-top|Dead
Albanian: vdekur
Breton: maro
Catalan: mort
Chinese Characters: æ­»
Chinese: æ­»
Croatian: t-|hr|mrtav
Czech: t-|cs|mrtvý|m
Danish: t-|da|død
Dutch: dood, dode, overleden, gestorven
Finnish: kuollut (1, 3)
French: t+|fr|mort|m, t+|fr|morte|f
Frisian: dea, deade
German: tot (1,3), gestorben (2)
Greek: νεκ��� (nekrós) m, �εθαμένο� (pethaménos) m, ά���ο� (ápsykhos) (soul-less) m, άζ�(�)ο� [áz�(t)os] (life-less) m
Hebrew: �ת (met) m, �ת� (meta) f
Hungarian: t-|hu|halott
Icelandic: dauður m, dauð f, dautt n; dáinn m, dáin f, dáið n; látinn m, látin f, látið n
trans-mid
Indonesian: t-|id|mati|xsIndonesian, t+|id|tinggal|altmeninggal|xs=Indonesian
Interlingua: morte
Italian: t+|it|morto|m, t+|it|morta|f
Japanese: 死�� (shinda)
Kurdish: KUchar|�رد�
Latin: mortuus m, mortua f, mortuum n
Low Saxon: dood
Polish: martwy (1), zmar�y (1), zepsuty (3)
Portuguese: t+|pt|morto|m, t-|pt|morta|f
Romanian: t-|ro|mort|m
Russian: ме��в�й m, ме��ва� f (1); до�л�й m, до�ла� f (coll., disparaging) (1, 3)
Scottish Gaelic: marbh
Slovak: m�tvy
Slovene: mrtev m, mrtva f, mrtvo n (1,3)
Spanish: t+|es|muerto|m, t-|es|muerta|f
Swedish: död (1,3)
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Noun
en-noun|pl=dead

1. singular Time when coldness, darkness, or stillness is most intense.

#: The dead of night. The dead of winter.

1. plural Those who have died.

#: Have respect for the dead.

Synonyms
italbrac|those who have died: the deceased

Translations
trans-top|Time when coldness, darkness, or stillness is most intense
Danish: t-|da|død|c
Finnish: sydän (as the second part of compound: yösydän �dead of night�)
trans-mid
German: Toten f|p
Polish: zmarli m|p
Spanish: t|es|pleno|m, t|es|plena|f
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trans-top|Those who have died
Danish: død c, afdød c
Finnish: kuollut|kuolleet p, vainajat p
trans-mid
Greek: t-|el|νεκ�οί|p|trnekroi|scGrek
Kurdish: KUchar|�رد�
Spanish: t|es|muertos|m
Swedish: t+|sv|döda|p
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trans-top|Translations to be checked
ttbc|Chinese: 死�
ttbc|Dutch: doden p, overledenen p, gestorvenen p
ttbc|Hebrew: �ת (met) m / �ת� (met�) f
ttbc|Japanese: 死� p (shisha)
trans-mid
ttbc|French: mort f
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Adverb
en-adv|-

1. exact|Exactly right.

#: He hit the target dead in the centre.

1. slang very|Very, absolutely, extremely, suddenly.

#: She�s dead sexy.
#: He�s dead stupid.
#: I�m dead tired.
#: That�s dead sure!

Translations
trans-top|Exactly right
Danish: lige, direkte
Finnish: täsmälleen, tismalleen, suoraan
trans-mid
German: t+|de|genau
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trans-top|Very, absolutely, extremely, suddenly
Danish: død-
Dutch: bloed-, oer-, dood-

trans-mid
Finnish: t-|fi|sairaan
German: tod-
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Verb
en-verb|dead|ed

1. transitive 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.<!-- This feels like an obsolete usage -->
#*: �What a man should do, when finds his natural impotency dead him in spiritual works�

Related terms
deaden
deadliness
deadly
deadness
death
the dead
undead

Derived terms
rel-top3|Derived terms
deadbeat
dead as a dodo
dead as a doorknob
dead as a doornail
deadbeat
dead end
rel-mid3
dead heat
dead last
dead leg
dead letter
deadline
deadlock
deadnettle
dead or alive
deadpan
rel-mid3
dead reckoning
Dead Sea
dead serious
dead set against
dead space
dead weight
deadwood
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Old English

Etymology
Common Germanic *daudhaz

Adjective
d�ad

1. dead

Related terms
deaþ|d�aþ

See also
steorfan

Category:Old English adjectives

ar:dead
fa:dead
fr:dead
hy:dead
io:dead
id:dead
it:dead
kk:dead
ku:dead
hu:dead
ja:dead
pt:dead
ru:dead
simple:dead
sr:dead
fi:dead
sv:dead
ta:dead
te:dead
vi:dead
tr:dead
uk:dead
vo:dead
zh:dead

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