Usually means: Simultaneously exhibiting life and death.
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  1. dead-alive: Merriam-Webster
  2. dead-alive: Wordnik
  3. dead-alive: Wiktionary
  4. Dead-alive: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  5. DEAD-ALIVE: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)

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▸ adjective:  Dull; lifeless; lacking originality and vitality.

Similar:
lifeless, unalive, dull, dead, unanimated, vapid, living dead, dead-hearted, airless, exanimate, more...

Opposite:
alive, living, animated, existing, not dead

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Similar:
lifeless, unalive, dull, dead, unanimated, vapid, living dead, dead-hearted, airless, exanimate, more...

Opposite:
alive, living, animated, existing, not dead



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