Dead

  • 61dead — 1. Without life. SEE ALSO: death. 2. Numb. * * * Dying Experience at Dartmouth * * * dead ded adj 1) deprived of life: having died <dead of scarlet fever> 2) lacking power to move, feel, or respond: NUMB dead n …

    Medical dictionary

  • 62Dead — 1. very tired; exhausted; 2. quiet: Business is dead today ; 3. used to add emphasis to a statement; completely: dead right ; a dead shot ; dead stupid ; 4. sexually dull: a dead root ; 5. (horseracing, etc.) (of a racetrack) not conducive to… …

    Dictionary of Australian slang

  • 63déad — adj 1 dead; torpid, dull; still, standing (of water); 1. physical, (1) of an animal or vegetable; (2) of flesh, dead, without sensation; (3) of blood, (a) congealed, (b) blood away from the body, gore; déad blód congealed blood; 2. fig. dead to,… …

    Old to modern English dictionary

  • 64dead — [OE] Dead is part of a Germanic family of adjectives (including also German tot, Dutch dood, Swedish död, and Gothic dauths) which come from a prehistoric Germanic adjective *dauthaz. This in turn came from an earlier *dhautós, which was the past …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 65dead — ded n. time when there is no life; dead person or persons adj. not living; lacking perception; inactive; feeble, subdued; absolute, definite; (Slang) very tired; exhausted; quiet (as in business is dead today ) adv. totally; suddenly; certainly;… …

    English contemporary dictionary

  • 66dead to —    recklessly ignoring    A Victorian survival, which used to refer mainly to sexual behaviour, when a person might be dead to honour or propriety:     I cannot suppose that he is altogether Dead to Propriety, though how long such Restraint will… …

    How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms

  • 67dead —   Make, make loa, moelepo.   See kukui, death.    ♦ Dead body, kino make, kino kupapa u.    ♦ War dead, mākaua.    ♦ To pretend to be dead, ho omake …

    English-Hawaiian dictionary

  • 68dead — See inner dead center lower dead center outer dead center …

    Dictionary of automotive terms

  • 69dead — [OE] Dead is part of a Germanic family of adjectives (including also German tot, Dutch dood, Swedish död, and Gothic dauths) which come from a prehistoric Germanic adjective *dauthaz. This in turn came from an earlier *dhautós, which was the past …

    Word origins

  • 70dead — See: CATCH DEAD, DROP DEAD, STONEDEAD …

    Dictionary of American idioms