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dead - people who are no longer living; "they buried the dead" |
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living people who are still living; "save your pity for the living"
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people (plural) any group of human beings (men or women or children) collectively; "old people"; "there were at least 200 people in the audience"
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slain people who have been slain (as in battle)
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dead person,
dead soul,
deceased,
deceased person,
decedent,
departed someone who is no longer alive; "I wonder what the dead person would have done"
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dead - a time when coldness (or some other quality associated with death) is intense; "the dead of winter" |
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time the continuum of experience in which events pass from the future through the present to the past
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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" |
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alive,
live capable of erupting; "a live volcano"; "the volcano is very much alive"
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aliveness,
living,
animation,
life people who are still living; "save your pity for the living"
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vitality,
animation an energetic style
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at peace,
deceased,
at rest,
departed,
asleep
gone
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assassinated murdered by surprise attack for political reasons; "the 20th century has seen too many assassinated leaders"
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exsanguine,
exsanguinous,
bloodless destitute of blood or apparently so; "the bloodless carcass of my Hector sold"- John Dryden
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brain dead having irreversible loss of brain function as indicated by a persistent flat electroencephalogram; "was declared brain dead"
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pulseless,
breathless,
inanimate appearing dead; not breathing or having no perceptible pulse; "an inanimate body"; "pulseless and dead"
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cold lacking the warmth of life; "cold in his grave"
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d.o.a. abbreviation for `dead on arrival' at the emergency room
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deathlike,
deathly having the physical appearance of death; "a deathly pallor"
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defunct having ceased to exist or live; "the will of a defunct aunt"; "a defunct Indian tribe"
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doomed marked for certain death; "the black spot told the old sailor he was doomed"
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executed put to death as punishment; "claimed the body of the executed traitor"
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fallen killed in battle; "to honor fallen soldiers"
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late being or occurring at an advanced period of time or after a usual or expected time; "late evening"; "late 18th century"; "a late movie"; "took a late flight"; "had a late breakfast"
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exanimate,
lifeless deprived of life; no longer living; "a lifeless body"
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murdered killed unlawfully; "the murdered woman"; "lay a wreath on murdered Lincoln's bier"
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nonviable not capable of living or developing successfully
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slain killed; `slain' is formal or literary as in "slain warriors"; "a picture of St. George and the slain dragon"
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stillborn (of newborn infant) showing no signs of life at birth; not liveborn; "a stillborn baby"
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stone-dead as lifeless as a stone
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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" |
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live exerting force or containing energy; "live coals"; "tossed a live cigarette out the window"; "got a shock from a live wire"; "live ore is unmined ore"; "a live bomb"; "a live ball is one in play"
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extinct (of e.g. volcanos) permanently inactive; "an extinct volcano"
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extinct,
out (of e.g. volcanos) permanently inactive; "an extinct volcano"
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lifeless deprived of life; no longer living; "a lifeless body"
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out of play
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dead - physically inactive; "Crater Lake is in the crater of a dead volcano of the Cascade Range" |
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extinct (of e.g. volcanos) permanently inactive; "an extinct volcano"
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dead - drained of electric charge; discharged; "a dead battery"; "left the lights on and came back to find the battery drained" |
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drained |
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uncharged of a particle or body or system; having no charge; "an uncharged particle"; "an uncharged battery"
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dead - out of use or operation because of a fault or breakdown; "a dead telephone line"; "the motor is dead" |
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inoperative not working or taking effect; "an inoperative law"
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dead - lacking resilience or bounce; "a dead tennis ball" |
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inelastic not elastic; "economists speak of an inelastic price structure"
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dead - not surviving in active use; "Latin is a dead language" |
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nonextant,
extinct no longer existing or inaccessible through loss or destruction; "its nonextant original was written on vellum"- G.B.Saul
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dead - 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" |
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deadened |
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insensitive not responsive to physical stimuli; "insensitive to radiation"
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dead - devoid of activity; "this is a dead town; nothing ever happens here" |
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inactive not active physically or mentally; "illness forced him to live an inactive life"; "dreamy and inactive by nature"
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dead - no longer having force or relevance; "a dead issue" |
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noncurrent not current or belonging to the present time
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dead - unerringly accurate; "a dead shot"; "took dead aim" |
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precise sharply exact or accurate or delimited; "a precise mind"; "specified a precise amount"; "arrived at the precise moment"
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dead - not yielding a return; "dead capital"; "idle funds" |
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idle |
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unprofitable producing little or no profit or gain; "deposits abandoned by mining companies as unprofitable"
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dead - lacking acoustic resonance; "dead sounds characteristic of some compact discs"; "the dead wall surfaces of a recording studio" |
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nonresonant,
unreverberant not reverberant; lacking a tendency to reverberate
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