dead | Lernwerd

Forms

1.No longer living; deceased. (Also used as a noun.)
- All of my grandparents are dead.
- The villagers are mourning their dead.
- Lily was pronounced dead at the scene.
2.Devoid of living things; barren.
- Was it possible to exist upon a dead world?
- Behold the substance from which all things draw their energy, the bright Spirit of the Globe, without which it cannot live, but must grow cold and dead as the dead moon.
3.Figuratively, not alive; lacking life.
- 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.
4.Utterly exhausted.
- “Finished the last one at three this morning, apart from bits and bobs and poppers. Quite frankly, I'm dead!”

1.Exactly.(colloquial)
- He hit the target dead in the centre.
- And because the tunnel is dead straight, it's perfect for reaching high speeds.
- Across the region known as the Landes, this stretch of line is almost dead level, and the only curve is one of 2¼ miles radius through the station of Labouheyre.
2.Very, absolutely, extremely.(colloquial)
- I knew once a Scotch sailmaker who was certain, dead sure, there were people in Mars.
- They tried the gas in the room and it was dead out; they looked at the meter in the basement afterwards and it was dead off.
3.Suddenly and completely.
- She cut me dead again at the last party.
4.As if dead.(informal)
- I was tired of reading, and dead sleepy.

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From Middle English ded, deed, from Old English dēad, from Proto-West Germanic *daud, from Proto-Germanic *daudaz.

Compare West Frisian dead, dea, Dutch dood, German tot, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål død, Norwegian Nynorsk daud, Swedish död.