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dead

English

  1. 🔊 devoid of activity
    “this is a dead town; nothing ever happens here”
  2. 🔊 physically inactive
    “Crater Lake is in the crater of a dead volcano of the Cascade Range”
  3. 🔊 no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life
    “the nerve is dead”
  4. 🔊 not showing characteristics of life especially the capacity to sustain life
    “Mars is a dead planet”
  5. 🔊 drained of electric charge
    “a dead battery”
  6. 🔊 no longer having force or relevance
    “a dead issue”
  7. 🔊 out of use or operation because of a fault or breakdown
    “a dead telephone line”
  8. 🔊 lacking resilience or bounce
    “a dead tennis ball”
  9. 🔊 not surviving in active use
    “Latin is a dead language”
  10. 🔊 unerringly accurate
    “a dead shot”
  11. 🔊 not yielding a return
    “dead capital”
  12. 🔊 lacking acoustic resonance
    “dead sounds characteristic of some compact discs”
  13. 🔊 devoid of physical sensation
    “his gums were dead from the novocain”
  14. 🔊 people who are no longer living
    “they buried the dead”
  15. 🔊 a time when coldness (or some other quality associated with death) is intense
    “the dead of winter”
  16. 🔊 completely and without qualification
    “an absolutely magnificent painting”
  17. 🔊 quickly and without warning
    “he stopped suddenly”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 extinto dead
  2. 🔊 muerto dead
  3. 🔊 tieso dead

Similar words

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