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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
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adverb as in completely or exactly
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direct, directly, entirely, exactly, straightly, undeviatingly, wholly
Example Sentences
Authorities were able to recover the man from the car, but he was pronounced dead at the scene.
When they went in to check on him they found him lying dead on the bed, with several empty drinks glasses nearby.
A man arrested on suspicion of murder after a man was shot dead has been released without charge.
Garbers was stopped for no gain, but both Foster and his quarterback said the play was blown dead prematurely.
Speaking on condition of anonymity, he said that 16 of the dead were Sunni and 66 belonged to the Shia community.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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