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Main Entry:	dead [ded] Show IPA/dɛd/ Show Spelled
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	no longer alive
Synonyms:	asleep, bereft of life, bloodless, bought the farm, breathless, buried, cadaverous, checked out, cold, cut off, deceased, defunct, departed, done for, erased, expired, extinct, gone, gone to meet maker, gone to reward, inanimate, inert, late, lifeless, liquidated, mortified, no more, not existing, offed, out of one's misery, passed away, perished, pushing up daisies, reposing, resting in peace, spiritless, stiff, unanimated, wasted
Antonyms:	alive, animated, being, existent, existing, live, living, subsisting

Main Entry:	dead
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	not working
Synonyms:	barren, bygone, defunct, departed, exhausted, extinct, gone, inactive, inoperable, inoperative, lost, obsolete, spent, stagnant, sterile, still, tired, unemployed, unprofitable, useless, vanished, wearied, worn, worn out
Antonyms:	active, alive, animate, animated, live, operative, working

Main Entry:	dead
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	complete, total
Synonyms:	absolute, bloody, downright, entire, final, out-and-out, outright, perfect, sure, thorough, unconditional, unmitigated, unqualified, utter, whole
Antonyms:	continuing, enduring, incomplete, unfinished

Example Sentences

Cellphone dead zones might soon become a thing of the past.

By definition, the child is dead when the diagnosis is made.

Dead zones are low-oxygen, or hypoxic, areas in the world's oceans and lakes.

Cellphone dead zones might soon become a thing of the past.

By definition, the child is dead when the diagnosis is made.

Dead zones are low-oxygen, or hypoxic, areas in the world's oceans and lakes.

How offshore garbage dumping contributes to ocean dead zones.

They may linger near a dead body for days and partially bury it.

Prune mainly to remove poorly placed, broken, or dead branches.

Oxygen-starved ocean dead zones may be more widespread than thought.

And they must tell students that their professor is dead.

Nine new species that dine only on dead whales have been discovered, a new study says.

Maybe they're trying to bring the dead back to life.

The placement of the body is said to signify honor and bring the dead closer to heaven.

In cold-winter climates, where freeze damage occurs, remove all dead and injured stems.

It is a rather unnerving fact that whether you are dead or alive may depend on where you live.

Ceremonies for the dead have always fascinated people of all ages.

There is something intensely animal about our relationship with the dead.

About half of the turtles on the beach are already dead.

To keep plants tidy and free blooming, prune and remove dead flower stems frequently.

Recent studies provide compelling evidence that even a father's age influences whether a baby might be born alive or dead.

Many giant squid have washed up on beaches or have been found dead or dying in fishing nets.

Many dead after petrol spill sparks fire-Kenya police.

Neanderthals were socially developed enough to bury their dead.

And typically, my winter squash vine would've been long dead by now.

Dead zones are areas of the ocean that no longer have enough oxygen to support sea life.

They exposed live ones to either the smell of their dead brethren or an ethanol control.

The scene is a sheriff's office near a mountain lake, where a hunter and his dog have been found dead.

Once a vine is established, you'll need to prune it periodically to keep it in bounds or to clear out unwanted or dead growth.

The ring patterns of old living trees were matched to those of dead trees to pinpoint years when the dead trees had been alive.

Furthermore, there is nothing that tells us whether the bird was alive or dead when the dinosaur consumed it.

Shear off dead flowers to leave attractive gray-green mat more add to my plant list.

Microorganisms, particularly bacteria, produce proteins in their cell walls that bind water-even if they are dead.

While it is long dead there is a lot of information on volcanoes and the different types of end results.

Cut off the dead foliage, fertilize, and water whenever the soil dries out.

Thus, the pigment that is visible in the hair and in the skin lies in these dead keratinocyte bodies.

Dead leaves drift on the green, cloudy water that's nearly to the brim of the six-million-gallon open concrete reservoir.

Shear off dead flowers to leave attractive gray-green mat add to my plant list.

Air can get trapped in this dead tissue and any of these trapped bubbles can break and cause pneumothoax.

Most runaway slaves fled to freedom in the dead of night, often pursued by barking bloodhounds.

In the dead of winter, spring-blooming bulbs are especially welcome in the house.

Rake up and dispose of dead leaves, since fungus spores can overwinter on them.

Alders need little pruning except to remove suckers, crossing branches, and dead wood.

Prune established horsechestnuts only to eliminate dead or damaged wood and any awkward-looking branches.

Sadly, everyday there are lots of dead bees on the patio, some with the yellow stuff on their legs.

We sweep nearly everyday, so these are new dead bees.

Prune to remove dead wood, straggling branches, faded flowers.

Shear off dead flowers to leave attractive gray-green mat.

In mild-winter climates, remove dead or old canes and make cuts as shown above right.

Place your subject in any of the four corners instead of dead center to keep the image from looking flat.

Remove any dead material from the previous season as new growth resumes.

When he composed them, he would dream of the dead lying on the ground.

Seemingly grieving, a wild gorilla holds on to her dead baby for days as family gathers around.

Booming population growth among the living, according to one rumor, outpaces the dead.

America's oldest primate, ocean dead zones and alligator lungs.

Realizing he had worked his whole life in vain, he destroyed all his paintings and was found dead the next day.

The stain in question enters dead cells easily, but cannot enter living ones.

Dead people tell no tales-but their bones do, when he examines them.

They don't call him the godfather of the dead for nothing.

Outside pressure for reform, in other words, is all but dead.

Clinical trials hint that treatment strategy is not a dead end.

Some peoples have revered vultures for carrying the flesh of the dead to the heavens.

Before new spring growth begins, shorten and shape plants, removing dead wood.

He is mourning his mother's recent death and throughout he is haunted by memories of her and of his dead sister and father.

Last year, people started reporting dead or dying specimens.

Today doctors use medicinal maggots to clean wounds by dissolving dead tissue and to disinfect them by killing bacteria.

When combined with overfishing, climate change, fertilizer runoff–induced dead zones and other human impacts on ocean.

Need little pruning except to remove wayward or dead growth.

Dead zones also can form at the mouths of polluted rivers.

Thatch is the tough fibrous layer of dead stems, rhizomes.

He's been dead for a decade, killed in his prime by a freak accident.

But the picture is also poignant, in that the boundless optimism it captured has been tempered by tragedies and dead ends.

We will all be dead by the time the slightest evolution in our species develops.

We watch for the pair of bald eagles that have lately come to nest in a tall dead oak.

But after the mid-1960s, they would not be caught dead wearing them".

But now, finally, there are batteries that won't fade to dead.

Remove old bark, cut off dead roots, and discard soft or rotted bulbs.

Others worry that the inevitable increase in dead kangaroos will alarm the campers who frequent the island.

Also trim dead growth from shrubs and trees, and prune any branches that.

But that flash of light is actually from the grit and debris in a dead comet's orbital path.

Wait until late spring or summer to prune frost-damaged trees new growth will make it clear which wood is dead.

Or, if the other queen has emerged by the time they find each other, they will often fight until one is dead.

In heavily infested trees, fallen pupal cases and dead adult weevils may be found around the base of the tree.

Main Entry:	dead
Part of Speech:	adverb
Definition:	completely, totally
Synonyms:	absolutely, direct, directly, due, entirely, exactly, right, straight, straightly, undeviatingly, wholly
Antonyms:	incompletely

Main Entry:	boring
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	uninteresting
Synonyms:	arid, bomb, bromidic, bummer, characterless, cloying, colorless, commonplace, dead*, drab, drag, drudging, dull, flat, ho hum, humdrum, insipid, interminable, irksome, lifeless, monotonous, moth-eaten, mundane, nothing, nowhere, platitudinous, plebeian, prosaic, repetitious, routine, spiritless, stale, stereotyped, stodgy, stuffy, stupid, tame, tedious, threadbare, tiresome, tiring, trite, unexciting, uninteresting, unvaried, vapid, wearisome, well-worn, zero
Antonyms:	exciting, fascinating, interesting

* = informal/non-formal usage

Main Entry:	bygone
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	in the past
Synonyms:	ancient, antiquated, archaic, belated, dated, dead, defunct, departed, down memory lane, erstwhile, extinct, forgotten, former, gone, gone by, in oblivion, late, lost, of old, of yore, old-fashioned, old-time, olden, oldfangled, one-time, out-of-date, previous, quondam, sometime, vanished, water over the dam, water under the bridge
Antonyms:	modern, new, recent

Main Entry:	cadaverous
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	pale, corpselike
Synonyms:	ashen, bag of bones, blanched, bloodless, consumptive, dead, deathlike, deathly, emaciated, exsanguinous, gaunt, ghastly, ghostly, haggard, pallid, peaked, peaky, sallow, shadowy, sick, skeletal, skeletonlike, skin and bones, spectral, thin, wan, wasted
Antonyms:	flushed, lifelike, lively

Main Entry:	casualty
Part of Speech:	noun
Definition:	victim
Synonyms:	dead, death toll, fatality, injured, killed, loss, missing, prey, sufferer, wounded

Main Entry:	cold
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	aloof, unresponsive
Synonyms:	apathetic, cold-blooded, cool, dead, distant, emotionless, frigid, frosty, glacial, icy, impersonal, imperturbable, indifferent, inhibited, inhospitable, joyless, lukewarm, matter-of-fact, passionless, phlegmatic, reserved, reticent, spiritless, standoffish, stony, unconcerned, undemonstrative, unenthusiastic, unfeeling, unimpassioned, unmoved, unresponsive, unsympathetic
Antonyms:	animated, ardent, eager, enthusiastic, excited, fervid, friendly, interested, sympathetic, warm, zealous

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