English
Adjective
deadest
- context|figurative or humorous superlative of|dead; most dead.
#*1848, Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre 1
#*:What crime was this, that lived incarnate in this sequestered mansion, and could neither be expelled nor subdued by the owner? -- what mystery, that broke out now in fire and now in blood, at the deadest hours of night?
#*1915, Kenneth Grahame, The Golden Age 2
#*:Here Rosa fell flat on her back in the deadest of faints. Her limbs were rigid, her eyes glassy; what had Jerry been doing? It must have been something very bad, for her to take on like that.
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