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dead
adjective as in no longer alive
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asleep, bereft of life, bloodless, bought the farm, breathless, cadaverous, checked out, cut off, defunct, done for, erased, expired, extinct, gone, gone to meet maker, gone to reward, liquidated, no more, not existing, offed, out of one's misery, passed away, perished, pushing up daisies, reposing, resting in peace
adjective as in physically or emotionally numb; insensitive
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anesthetized, apathetic, callous, deadened, frigid, senseless, spiritless, torpid, unanimated
adjective as in not working
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adjective as in without vitality; boring; dull
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boring, flat, spiritless, unanimated, uninteresting, vapid, wooden
Strong match
adverb as in completely or exactly
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direct, directly, entirely, exactly, straightly, undeviatingly, wholly
Example Sentences
The cartoonist, better known as Charb, was shot dead Wednesday.
A policewoman was shot dead this morning while law enforcement searched for the Charlie Lebdo killers.
Absent a body, no one can say with absolute certainty whether Castro is dead, even if all signs point in that direction.
The two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is dead.
Yes, Byrd—dead four-and-a-half years now—was a Kleagle in the Ku Klux Klan.
A little boy of four was moved to passionate grief at the sight of a dead dog taken from a pond.
When he plays a sonata it is as if the composition rose from the dead and stood transfigured before you.
To-day I'm more dead than alive, as we had a lesson from him yesterday that lasted four hours.
It is a fearsome thing for a man to be left alone in the dead of night with a young baby.
If they are Ancients and dead then let them be buried and left to the archæological excavator.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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