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DEAD meaning: 1. not now living: 2. If a part of your body is dead, you cannot feel it: 3. If glasses and…. Learn more.
How to use dead in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Dead. deprived of life : no longer alive; having the appearance of death : deathly; lacking power to move, feel, or respond : numb…
Dead definition: no longer living; deprived of life. See examples of DEAD used in a sentence.
dead is usually applied to something that had life but from which life is now gone: dead trees. deceased, a more formal word than dead, is applied to human beings who no longer have life: a deceased member of the church. extinct is applied to a race, species, or the like, no member of which is any longer alive: Mastodons are now extinct ...
Definition of dead adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Definition of dead noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Related topics: Telephone, telegraph, Astronomy, Sport dead1 /ded/ S1 W1 adjective [ no comparative] 1 not alive no longer alive Her mother had been dead for ten years.
1 no longer alive My mother's dead; she died in 1987. a dead person/animal dead leaves/wood/skin He was shot dead by a gunman outside his home. Catherine's dead body lay peacefully on the bed. He dropped dead (= died suddenly) last week.
Unable to function or move: The crippled ship was dead in the water. With no leadership, the project was dead in the water. American Heritage. dead to rights. In the very act of making an error or committing a crime: The police caught the thief dead to rights with my silverware. American Heritage.
the dead: the state of being dead — usually used in the phrases rise from the dead or come back from the dead or return from the dead to mean to become alive again after dying
