- dead
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adjective
at rest, bereft of life, breathless, buried, cadaverous, deceased, defunct, demised, departed, departed this life, deprived of life, destitute of life, devoid of life, dormant, ended, exanimate, expired, extinct, extinguished, inactive, inert, lifeless, long gone, no longer living, not possessing life, passed away, still, terminated, without a sign of life, without life, without the appearance of life
associated concepts: dead-born, next of kin, presumed dead, surviving spouse, wrongful death
foreign phrases:
- Cadaver nullius in bonis. — A dead body is no one's property.II noun corpse, the deceased, decedent, the defunct, the departed, exanimis, exanimus, fatal casualty, fatality, the late, the late lamented, mortuus associated concepts: autopsy, dead-born, dead man's statute, decedent's estates, next of kin, presumed dead, surviving spouse, wrongful death foreign phrases:- Extra legem positus est civiliter mortuus. — He who is placed outside the law is civilly dead.III index deceased, defunct, late (defunct), null (invalid), obsolete, pedestrian, torpid
Burton's Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006