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dead
Adjective
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Not alive.
My brother is dead. His funeral was last week.
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Without power.
The problem is a dead battery.
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Without feeling, numb.
My arm is dead. I cannot feel it.
dead
Adverb
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Exactly, completely.
He thinks you are a woman, but you are a man. He is dead wrong.
beats
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noun
(= beat generation)
a United States youth subculture of the 1950s; rejected possessions or regular work or traditional dress; for communal living and psychedelic drugs and anarchism; favored modern forms of jazz (e.g., bebop)