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See also:déadandDEAD

English

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Etymology

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FromMiddle Englishded,deed, fromOld Englishdēad, fromProto-West Germanic*daud, fromProto-Germanic*daudaz. CompareWest Frisiandead,dea,Dutchdood,Germantot,Danish,Norwegiandød,Norwegian Nynorskdaud.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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dead (not generallycomparable,comparativedeader,superlativedeadest)

Adeadpigeon.
  1. (usually not comparable) No longerliving;deceased.(Also used as a noun.)
    All of my grandparents aredead.
    Have respect for thedead.
    The villagers are mourning theirdead.
    Thedead are always with us, in our hearts.
    Lily was pronounceddead at the scene.
    A storekeeper downtown was shotdead last evening.
    raise thedead
    wake thedead
  2. (usually not comparable)Devoid ofliving things;barren.
    adead planet
  3. (hyperbolic) Figuratively, notalive;lackinglife.
    • 1600,William Shakespeare,As You Like It, act III, scene 3:
      When a man's verses cannot be understood, nor a man's good wit seconded with the forward child, understanding, it strikes a manmore dead than a great reckoning in a little room.
  4. (of another person) Sohated oroffensive as to be absolutelyshunned,ignored, orostracized.
    He isdead to me.
    • 2020 July 24,Taylor Swift, “My Tears Ricochet”, inFolklore‎[1]:
      I didn't have it in myself to go with grace
      And you're the hero flying around, saving face
      And if I'mdead to you, why are you at the wake?
  5. Doomed;marked fordeath;as good as dead (literally or as ahyperbole).
    "You come back here this instant! Oh, you'redead, mister!"
    • 2009, Noel Hynd,Midnight in Madrid‎[2]:
      You'redead. A million and one thoughts pounded her at once. But one overpowered all the others. This time you'redead.
  6. Withoutemotion;impassive.
    She stood withdead face and limp arms, unresponsive to my plea.
  7. Stationary;static;immobile orimmovable.
    thedead load on the floor
    adead lift
  8. Without interest to one of thesenses;dull;flat.
    dead air
    adead glass of soda.
  9. Unproductive;fallow.
    dead time
    dead fields
    • 2019 April 10,qntm, “CASE HATE RED”, inThere Is No Antimemetics Division,→ISBN, page136:
      The auditorium opens and the seats fill. As ever, there's a brief, greydead time while Wheeler waits for all the machinery of the performance to spin up. The anxious feeling is stronger than usual today. It grips him, an uncharacteristic urge to run away.Sure, he thinks.I could just junk my career, right now. Pack it in and make for the stage door. Maybe the taxi'll still be there.
  10. Past,bygone,vanished.
    • 1905,Lord Dunsany [i.e., Edward Plunkett, 18th Baron of Dunsany],The Gods of Pegāna, London:[Charles] Elkin Mathews, […],→OCLC,page40:
      Then shall the Times that were be Times no more; and it may be that the old,dead days shall return from beyond the Rim, and we who have wept for them shall see those days again, as one who, returning from long travel to his home, comes suddenly on dear, remembered things.
  11. (of a place) Lacking usual activity; unexpectedly quiet or empty of people.
    Antonyms:alive,bustling,busy,crowded,hopping,lively,noisy
    For a Friday night, it's reallydead in this restaurant.
  12. (not comparable, of a machine, device, or electrical circuit) Completelyinactive; currently withoutpower; without asignal; notlive.
    OK, the circuit'sdead. Go ahead and cut the wire.
    Now that the motor'sdead you can reach in and extract the spark plugs.
  13. (of a battery) Unable toemit power, being discharged (flat) or faulty.
  14. (not comparable)Broken orinoperable.
    That monitor isdead; don’t bother hooking it up.
  15. (not comparable) No longer used or required.
    There are severaldead laws still on the books regulating where horses may be hitched.
    Is this beer glassdead?
    • 1984, Winston Smock,Technical Writing for Beginners, page148:
      No mark of any kind should ever be made on adead manuscript.
    • 2017, Zhaomo Yang, Brian Johannesmeyer,Dead Store Elimination (Still) Considered Harmful:
      In this paper, we survey the set of techniques found in the wild that are intended to prevent data-scrubbing operations from being removed duringdead store elimination.
  16. (engineering) Intentionally designed so as not toimpart motion or power.
    thedead spindle of a lathe
    Adead axle, also called a lazy axle, is not part of thedrivetrain, but is instead free-rotating.
  17. (not comparable, sports) Not inplay.
    Once the ball crosses the foul line, it'sdead.
  18. (not comparable, golf, of a golf ball) Lying so near thehole that the player is certain tohole it in the nextstroke.
  19. (not comparable, baseball, slang, 1800s)Taggedout.
  20. (not comparable) Full and complete(usually applied to nouns involving lack of motion, sound,activity, or other signs of life).
    dead stop
    dead sleep
    dead giveaway
    dead silence
  21. (not comparable) Exact;on the dot.
    dead center
    dead aim
    adead eye
    adead level
  22. Experiencingpins and needles (paresthesia).
    After sitting on my hands for a while, my arms becamedead.
  23. (text messaging or Internetslang, sometimes as a standalone word, often with💀)Expresses an emotional reaction associated with hyperbolic senses ofdie:
    Synonyms:RIP,💀
    1. (hyperbolic)Dying oflaughter.
      Synonyms:crying,LMAO,ROFL,😭
      • 2023 March 3, ihatethis6666666, “I amdead ☠️”, inReddit‎[3], r/vanderpumprules:
        Lmao I’mdead this was me to my fiancé since I found out in the car and my son was in the back seat 😭
      • 2023 May 31, Rod-kun, “Lmao I'mdead 🤣”, inReddit‎[4], r/DrStone, archived fromthe original on26 July 2024:
    2. Expresses shock, second-hand embarrassment, etc.
      • 2022 December 7, Stealingmemesunlucky, “I'mdead 💀💀”, inReddit‎[5], r/TikTokCringe, archived fromthe original on26 July 2024:
  24. (acoustics) Constructed so as not toreflect ortransmit sound; soundless;anechoic.
    adead floor
  25. (obsolete) Bringing death;deadly.
  26. (law) Cut off from the rights of acitizen;deprived of the power of enjoying the rights ofproperty.
    A person who is banished or who becomes a monk is civillydead.
  27. (rare, especially religion, often with "to")Indifferent to; having noobligation toward; no longer subject to or ruled by (sin, guilt, pleasure, etc).
    • 1839, William Jenks,The Comprehensive Commentary on the Holy Bible: Acts-Revelation, page361:
      He wasdead to the law. Whatever account others might make of it, yet, for his part, he wasdead to it.[…] But though he was thusdead to the law, yet he[…] was far from thinking himself discharged from his duty to God' on the contrary, he wasdead to the law,that he might live unto God.
    • 1849, Robert Haldane,Exposition of the Epistle to the Romans, page255:
      But he died to the guilt of sin—to the guilt of his people's sins which he had taken upon him; and they, dying with him, as is above declared, die to sin precisely in the same sense in which he died to it.[…] He was not justified from it till his resurrection, but from that moment he wasdead to it. When he shall appear the second time, it will be "without sin."
  28. (linguistics) Of asyllable in languages such asThai andBurmese: ending abruptly.
    Antonym:live
    • 2011, Russ Crowley,Learning Thai, Your Great Adventure, page28:
      […] syllable isdead, the tone will depend on whether the vowel is short or long.

Usage notes

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  • InMiddle andEarly Modern English, the phraseisdead was more common where the present perfect formhas died is common today. Example:
1611, King James Bible
I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain. (Gal. 2:21)
  • Regarding humans or beloved animals, idiomatically many speakers feel some reticence about saying, for example,Grandma is dead as contrasted withGrandma has died; the former sounds too harshconnotationally in the context. Similarly withour dog died as contrasted withour dog is dead; but (referring toroadkill or hunted game) usuallythe deer is dead as contrasted withthe deer has died. This is a subtle and subjective aspect of idiom, not a matter ofgrammar orunidiomatic construction. Its mechanism is also not unrelated to the urge for euphemisms for when humansdie (such aspass away).

Synonyms

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Antonyms

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Translations

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no longer alive—see alsodeceased
devoid of living things, barren
figuratively, not alive
idiomatic: hated
fully and completely motionless
without emotion
of a device: completely inactive; without power
broken or inoperable
no longer used or required
sports: not in play
experiencing pins and needles
texting or Internet slang: dying of laughter
texting or Internet slang: expressing shock, embarrassment, etc.
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Adverb

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dead (notcomparable)

  1. (degree, informal, colloquial)Exactly.
    dead right;dead level;dead flat;dead straight;dead left
    He hit the targetdead in the centre.
    • 1955 June, 'Mercury', “Over 200 Miles Per Hour”, inRailway Magazine, page379:
      Across the region known as the Landes, this stretch of line is almostdead level, and the only curve is one of 2¼ miles radius through the station of Labouheyre.
    • 2003 December 1, Brian Long,RX-7 Mazda’s Rotary Engine Sports Car: Updated & Enlarged Edition, Veloce Publishing Ltd,→ISBN, page145:
      Independent tests later confirmed [the figures] to be accurate, withCar & Driver seeing 159mph (254kph), 0.60 in five secondsdead, and an amazingly high 0.97g.
    • 2023 November 29, Peter Plisner, “The winds of change in Catesby Tunnel”, inRAIL, number997, page56:
      And because the tunnel isdead straight, it's perfect for reaching high speeds.
  2. (degree, informal, colloquial)Very,absolutely,extremely.
    dead wrong;dead set;dead serious;dead drunk;dead broke;dead earnest;dead certain;dead slow;dead sure;dead simple;dead honest;dead accurate;dead easy;dead scared;dead solid;dead black;dead white;dead empty
  3. Suddenly andcompletely.
    He stoppeddead.
    She cut medead again at the last party.
  4. (informal) As if dead.
    dead tired;dead quiet;dead asleep;dead pale;dead cold;dead still

Translations

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exactly
very, absolutely, extremely, suddenly

Noun

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dead (uncountable)

  2. (often with "the") Time whencoldness,darkness, orstillness is mostintense.
    Near-synonym:nadir
  3. (with "the") Those who have died:dead people.
    Synonyms:(polite)deceased,departed
    Antonyms:living;(archaic)quick
    the quick andthe dead
    Willthe dead rise again?
    He will come again to judge the living andthe dead.

Translations

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time when coldness, darkness, or stillness is most intense
those (dead people) who have died

Noun

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dead (pluraldeads)

  2. (UK)(usually in theplural)Sterileminingwaste, often present as manylargerocksstackedinside theworkings.
  4. (bodybuilding, colloquial)Clipping ofdeadlift.

Verb

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dead (third-person singular simple presentdeads,present participledeading,simple past and past participledeaded)

  1. (transitive) Toprevent bydisabling; tostop.
    • 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.
      “What a man should do, when finds his natural impotencydead him in spiritual works”
  2. (transitive) To makedead; todeaden; todeprive oflife,force, orvigour.
  3. (transitive, UK, US, slang) Tokill.
    • 2004, “Guinnesses”, inMm..Food, performed byMF Doom ft. Angelika & 4-IZE:
      I shouldadeaded it from genesis instead of hittin' the Guinnesses
    • 2006, Leighanne Boyd,Once Upon A Time In The Bricks, page178:
      This dude at the club was trying to kill us so Ideaded him, and then I had to collect from Spice.
    • 2008, Marvlous Harrison,The Coalition, page106:
      “What, you was just gonnadead him because if that's the case then why the fuck we getting the money?” Sha asked annoyed.
    • 2020 January 6, Courtney A. Kemp, Matt K. Turner, 33:48 from the start, inPower, season 6, episode11, spoken by Tommy Egan (E Joseph Sikora):
      TOMMY:”Honestly, I’d love to help you with that but I’ve got a surplus of motherfuckers that I need todead right now.”
  4. (transitive, African-American Vernacular, slang, by extension) Todiscontinue orput an end to (something).
    • 2005, Black Artemis,Picture Me Rollin', New York, N.Y.:New American Library,→ISBN,page269:
      "I thought I told you to shut up," said Jesus. "I don't be laying up withchickenheads, so you need todead that shit before you piss me the fuck off."
    • 2013,Adam Mansbach,Rage Is Back, New York, N.Y.:Viking,→ISBN,page140:
      "This might be kinda beside the point right now," I said carefully, settling into the chair across from him, "but it's probably time todead all that open-door no-gun shit, huh?"
    • 2018,U-God [Lamont Hawkins],Raw: My Journey Into The Wu-Tang, New York, N.Y.:Picador,→ISBN,→OCLC,page118:
      "Shorty, whatchu got in your pocket? Let me see that hat." ¶ "Nah, man.Dead that." Out would come the .32. ¶ "Oh, aight. You got that, shorty, you got that."

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Terms derived from all parts of speech

References

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  • “dead”, inOneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

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Chinese

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Etymology

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Pseudoback-formation fromEnglishdeadline.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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dead

  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, chiefly universityslang) to bedue by; to have adeadline of
    呢份功課今晚dead。[Hong Kong Cantonese,trad.]
    呢份功课今晚dead。[Hong Kong Cantonese,simp.]
    ni1 fan6 gung1 fo3 gam1 maan5-1det1.[Jyutping]
    This homeworkis due tonight.

French

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromEnglishdead.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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dead

  1. (slang, anglicism) tosucceed (in doing something well, "killing it")
    • 2018, “Djadja”, inDjadja, performed by Aya Nakamura:
      J'suis pas ta catin Djadja, genre en catchana baby tudead ça.
      I ain't your bitch Djadja, as if youkill it doing doggystyle, baby.

Usage notes

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The verb is left unconjugated:il dead, il a dead. Usage is limited to the present, as well as an infinitive or a past participle.

Old English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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FromProto-West Germanic*daud, fromProto-Germanic*daudaz. Cognate withOld Frisiandād,Old Saxondōd,Old High Germantōt,Old Norsedauðr,Gothic𐌳𐌰𐌿𐌸𐍃(dauþs).

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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dēad

  1. dead
    • late 9th century,translation ofOrosius’History Against the Pagans
      Phillippus him dyde heora wīġ unweorð, ōð hyne ān Cwēne scēat þurh þæt þēoh, þæt þæt hors wæsdēad, þe hē on ufan sæt.
      Phillippus did them their battle ignoble, until a queen shot him through the thigh, that the horse wasdead, which he sat on at the top.

Declension

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Declension ofdēad — Strong
SingularMasculineFeminineNeuter
Nominativedēaddēaddēad
Accusativedēadnedēadedēad
Genitivedēadesdēadredēades
Dativedēadumdēadredēadum
Instrumentaldēadedēadredēade
PluralMasculineFeminineNeuter
Nominativedēadedēada,dēadedēad
Accusativedēadedēada,dēadedēad
Genitivedēadradēadradēadra
Dativedēadumdēadumdēadum
Instrumentaldēadumdēadumdēadum
Declension ofdēad — Weak
SingularMasculineFeminineNeuter
Nominativedēadadēadedēade
Accusativedēadandēadandēade
Genitivedēadandēadandēadan
Dativedēadandēadandēadan
Instrumentaldēadandēadandēadan
PluralMasculineFeminineNeuter
Nominativedēadandēadandēadan
Accusativedēadandēadandēadan
Genitivedēadra,dēadenadēadra,dēadenadēadra,dēadena
Dativedēadumdēadumdēadum
Instrumentaldēadumdēadumdēadum

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Old Irish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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FromProto-Celtic*dīwedom, verbal noun of*dīwedeti(“to stop”) (whenceWelshdiwedd(“end, ending”)).

Noun

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dead n (genitivedeïd,no plural)

  1. end

Declension

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Neuter o-stem
singulardualplural
nominativedeadN——
vocativedeadN——
accusativedeadN——
genitivedeïdL——
dativedïudL,deüd——
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

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Mutation

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Mutation ofdead
radicallenitionnasalization
deaddead
pronounced with/ðʲ-/		ndead

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in Old Irish.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

Further reading

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Volapük

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Etymology

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Borrowed fromEnglishdead ordeath (with the "th" changed to "d").

Pronunciation

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Noun

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dead (nominative pluraldeads)

  1. death, state ofbeingdead, state of death

Declension

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Declension ofdead
singularplural
nominativedeaddeads
genitivedeadadeadas
dativedeadedeades
accusativedeadideadis
vocative1odead!odeads!
predicative2deadudeadus

1 status as a case is disputed
2 in later, non-classical Volapük only

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