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a time when coldness (or some other quality associated with death) is intense; "the dead of winter"
devoid of physical sensation; numb; "his gums were dead from the novocain"; "she felt no discomfort as the dentist drilled her deadened tooth"; "a public desensitized by continuous television coverage of atrocities" insensitive
lacking acoustic resonance; "dead sounds characteristic of some compact discs"; "the dead wall surfaces of a recording studio" unreverberant
not yielding a return; "dead capital"; "idle funds" unprofitable
unerringly accurate; "a dead shot"; "took dead aim" precise
out of use or operation because of a fault or breakdown; "a dead telephone line"; "the motor is dead" malfunctioning
not surviving in active use; "Latin is a dead language" extinct
lacking resilience or bounce; "a dead tennis ball" inelastic
no longer in force or use; inactive; "a defunct (or dead) law"; "a defunct organization" inoperative
no longer having force or relevance; "a dead issue" noncurrent
drained of electric charge; discharged; "a dead battery"; "left the lights on and came back to find the battery drained" uncharged
lacking animation or excitement or activity; "the party being dead we left early"; "it was a lifeless party until she arrived" unanimated
not showing characteristics of life especially the capacity to sustain life; no longer exerting force or having energy or heat; "Mars is a dead planet"; "a dead battery"; "dead soil"; "dead coals"; "the fire is dead" barren, lifeless, out of play(p), extinct
no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life; "the nerve is dead"; "a dead pallor"; "he was marked as a dead man by the assassin" asleep(p), assassinated, bloodless, brain dead, breathless, cold, deathlike, defunct, d.o.a., doomed, executed, fallen, late(a), lifeless, murdered, slain, stillborn, stone-dead, nonviable
physically inactive; "Crater Lake is in the crater of a dead volcano of the Cascade Range" extinct
devoid of activity; "this is a dead town; nothing ever happens here" inactive
people who are no longer living; "they buried the dead"
not endowed with life; "the inorganic world is inanimate"; "inanimate objects"; "dead stones" nonconscious
completely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers; "an absolutely magnificent painting"; "a perfectly idiotic idea"; "you''re perfectly right"; "utterly miserable"; "you can be dead sure of my innocence"; "was dead tired"; "dead right"
quickly and without warning; "he stopped suddenly"


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