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dead

Not alive. My brother is dead. His funeral was last week. Without power. The problem is a dead battery. Without feeling, numb. My arm is dead. I cannot feel it.

dead

Exactly, completely. He thinks you are a woman, but you are a man. He is dead wrong.

dead

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 people who are no longer living they buried the dead 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 dead soil dead coals the fire is dead (= all in, beat, bushed) very tired was all in at the end of the day so beat I could flop down and go to sleep anywhere bushed after all that exercise I'm dead after that long trip physically inactive Crater Lake is in the crater of a dead volcano of the Cascade Range unerringly accurate a dead shot took dead aim a time when coldness (or some other quality associated with death) is intense the dead of winter (= numb) (followed by 'to') not showing human feeling or sensitivity; unresponsive passersby were dead to our plea for help numb to the cries for mercy (= deadened) 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 (= idle) not yielding a return dead capital idle funds lacking acoustic resonance dead sounds characteristic of some compact discs the dead wall surfaces of a recording studio devoid of activity this is a dead town; nothing ever happens here no longer having force or relevance a dead issue (= utter) complete came to a dead stop utter seriousness (= drained) drained of electric charge; discharged a dead battery left the lights on and came back to find the battery drained lacking resilience or bounce a dead tennis ball out of use or operation because of a fault or breakdown a dead telephone line the motor is dead not surviving in active use Latin is a dead language (= stagnant) not circulating or flowing dead air dead water stagnant water (= suddenly) quickly and without warning he stopped suddenly (= absolutely, perfectly, utterly) 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

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Simple sentences

Liz has been dead for eight years.
The lion ripped the flesh from the dead giraffe.
Is the snake alive or dead?
He is dead drunk.
My father has been dead for ten years.
My car battery is dead.
Happy is she who marries the son of a dead mother.
I felt like I was dead.
It's true that she's dead.
The dog is dead.
Both of the brothers are dead.
Someday, you'll wake up and find yourself dead.
I thought you were dead.
I'm going to shoot him dead.
It's a dead end.
This is a dead-end alley.
This is a dead-end street.
A bear will not touch a dead body.
The man who stops learning is as good as dead.
When the fire broke out, he was dead asleep.
Move a step, and you'll be a dead man!
The doctors thought he was dead, but today he is still alive and healthy, and has a job and a family.
The doctors tell you that he is brain-dead.
I'll look after your affairs when you are dead.
I found, to my surprise, that she was dead.
After drinking all night, Bob was dead to the world.
I'm dead to love.
Romeo, believing that Juliet was dead, decided to kill himself.
It's the dead of the night.
One more step, and you'll be a dead man.
We got dead drunk.
One of the twins is alive, but the other is dead.
Is the bird alive or dead?

Movie subtitles

We are all dead now!
Aret you not dead?
Henry V himself became King at the age of 26, and was dead from dysentery by 35 - a reminder, by the way, that most history is made by young people.
The general is going to come back, and if he sees us here, we are all dead!
Our prophet returns, even from the dead!
Who has risen from the dead?
Who cares what happens when we're dead?
You're a fucking dead man.
If we caught him in the woods, he would've been dead.
It's a face that looks like she came back from the dead.
For the person who was alive during the death and was dead during the life, allow the living body and dead heart!
Since your dark pieces won, there would be many people dead somewhere.
The Magistrate is going crazy as that wench is dead just in time!
You may see me as alive, but I am dead.
Sir, my wife is dead. She left me 5 children.
Ever do this again, you're a dead man. All right.
I agree that humans have reached a dead end in terms of evolution.
Investigation on Dr Monro, dead on April the 1st, under mysterious circumstances.
In a few seconds he collapses dead on the floor.
Not long afterwards, Elsalill had a peculiar dream. She thought she saw her dead foster sister standing before her.
The dead are poor.
But dead and mute.
If you're dead one day, what use is my love to you then?
He's dead.
Michael Dennin, by the Queen's law you shall be hanged by the neck. until you are dead.
Dead. dead.
Your dad's dead.
I started to think about all the things they'd find out about me, you know, when I was dead.
They don't do anything without each other, so they go out and look for a dead body in the first season, and Scott gets bit by a werewolf.
I want Derek dead.
Because Lydia was immune to his werewolf bite, Peter knew that she was the only one that could bring him back from the dead.
She doesn't just shine, only to dead people like you.
She can jump from body to body? I'm not in a place to speak considering I came back from the dead, but there really are all kinds of strange monsters, aren't there?
How can you call a dead.
YOU WOULD BE DEAD OR IN PRISON RIGHT NOW IF IT WASN'T FOR ME.
He ain't dead!
All he's got is this old flip, and the battery's always dead.
A dead duck.

News and current affairs

Basle II is dead - at least until memories of the current disaster fade.
So maintaining that government in office has now become a strategic priority for Iran, particularly as it is now clear that any US hopes of using Iraq as a permanent military base are dead.
Fortunately, the bond markets are dead, and it might take a year to revive them.
If Obama is re-elected, and Republicans control the House and Senate, his legislative agenda will essentially be a dead letter, and he will spend the next two years, at least, negotiating its reform and rollback.
On one hand, he is wise not to have visited the Yasukuni shrine, which honors millions of Japan's war dead, including 14 Class A war criminals.
If those who gather in Moscow on May 9 do anything to validate Soviet war crimes, they will show themselves insensitive to the silent cries of WWII's tens of millions of dead innocents.
Better Red than Dead?
Some societies might decide that it is better to be red than dead.
But, as Keynes said, in the long run, we are all dead.
For the general expectation is that if France rejects the Constitution, the Constitution would be dead, and no British referendum would be needed.
For if the Constitution is indeed dead, what happens next?
The widows and the mothers of the dead weep and cry out for bloody justice.
The Hazaras reacted to the attack by making the coffins of the dead a symbol of protest.
Here, as elsewhere, Bush is dead wrong, and too dogmatic to admit it.
Listening, it was hard to imagine that they could easily be dead - and would be, if not for this clinic.
Forced harmonization is dead, which opens the door to making new voluntary forms of social harmony possible.
European leaders trip over themselves to declare, one more forcefully than the next, that multiculturalism is dead.
Koizumi's insistence on paying homage to the war dead interred at Yasukuni, where convicted war criminals from World War II are among the buried, has been damaging relations with Japan's neighbors for years.
But the patriarchal culture from which Alexievich emerged is far from dead.
But a year ago, the figures were already dire: 60,000 dead, 700,000 international refugees, and two million internally displaced.
After all, ever since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 left roughly 3,000 people dead, gun violence has killed almost 140,000 and injured more than two million.
Everything in this new China - where the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) still rules, but the ideas of Karl Marx are as dead as they are in Russia - is for sale, even the trappings of its Maoist past.
The recent fighting in Macedonia, which left eight police officers and 14 Albanian militants dead, raises the specter of renewed violence.
Both sides have maneuvered themselves into a dead-end.
A month later, a French jihadist attacked the Jewish museum in Brussels, leaving three dead and one critically wounded.

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