Dead (Law & Order: Criminal Intent episode)
WordNet
adjective
(1) Devoid of activity
"This is a dead town; nothing ever happens here"
(2) Physically inactive
"Crater Lake is in the crater of a dead volcano of the Cascade Range"
(3) 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"
(4) 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"
"A dead battery"
"Dead soil"
"Dead coals"
"The fire is dead"
(5) Not endowed with life
"The inorganic world is inanimate"
"Inanimate objects"
"Dead stones"
(6) Lacking animation or excitement or activity
"The party being dead we left early"
"It was a lifeless party until she arrived"
(7) Drained of electric charge; discharged
"A dead battery"
"Left the lights on and came back to find the battery drained"
(8) No longer having force or relevance
"A dead issue"
(9) No longer in force or use; inactive
"A defunct (or dead) law"
"A defunct organization"
(10) Lacking resilience or bounce
"A dead tennis ball"
(11) Not surviving in active use
"Latin is a dead language"
(12) Out of use or operation because of a fault or breakdown
"A dead telephone line"
"The motor is dead"
(13) Unerringly accurate
"A dead shot"
"Took dead aim"
(14) Not yielding a return
"Dead capital"
"Idle funds"
(15) Lacking acoustic resonance
"Dead sounds characteristic of some compact discs"
"The dead wall surfaces of a recording studio"
(16) 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"
adverb
(17) Completely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers
"An absolutely magnificent painting"
"A perfectly idiotic idea"
"You're perfectly right"
"Utterly miserable"
"You can be dead sure of my innocence"
"Was dead tired"
"Dead right"
(18) Quickly and without warning
"He stopped suddenly"
noun
(19) People who are no longer living
"They buried the dead"
(20) A time when coldness (or some other quality associated with death) is intense
"The dead of winter"
WiktionaryText
Adjective
- No longer living.
- All of my grandparents are dead.
- Figuratively, not alive; lacking life
- 1600, William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act III, Scene 3:
- When a man's verses cannot be understood, nor a man's good wit seconded with the forward child, understanding, it strikes a man more dead than a great reckoning in a little room.
- 1600, William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act III, Scene 3:
- be dead to (person) : So hated by that they are absolutely ignored.
- He is dead to me.
- Without emotion.
- She stood with dead face and limp arms, unresponsive to my plea.
- Stationary; static.
- the dead load on the floor; a dead lift.
- Without interest to one of the senses; dull; flat.
- dead air; a dead glass of soda.
- Unproductive.
- dead time; dead fields; also in compounds.
- Completely inactive; without power; without a signal.
- OK, the circuit’s dead. Go ahead and cut the wire.
- Now that the motor’s dead you can reach in and extract the spark plugs.
- Broken or inoperable.
- That monitor is dead; don’t bother hooking it up.
- No longer used or required.
- There are several dead laws still on the books regulating where horses may be hitched.
- Is this beer glass dead ?
- Not in play.
- Once the ball crosses the foul line, it’s dead.
- Full and complete.
- dead stop; dead sleep; dead giveaway; dead silence
- Exact.
- dead center; dead aim; a dead eye; a dead level
Noun
- Time when coldness, darkness, or stillness is most intense.
- The dead of night. The dead of winter.
- Those who have died.
- Have respect for the dead.
Adverb
- Exactly right.
- He hit the target dead in the centre.
- Very, absolutely, extremely, suddenly.
- She’s dead sexy.
- He’s dead stupid.
- I’m dead tired.
- That’s dead sure!
Verb
- to prevent by disabling; stop
- 1826: The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Edward Reynolds, Lord Bishop of Norwich, collected by Edward Reynolds, Benedict Riveley, and Alexander Chalmers. pp. 227. London: B. Holdsworth.
- “What a man should do, when finds his natural impotency dead him in spiritual works”
- 1826: The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Edward Reynolds, Lord Bishop of Norwich, collected by Edward Reynolds, Benedict Riveley, and Alexander Chalmers. pp. 227. London: B. Holdsworth.