Usually means: No longer alive; ceased functioning.
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General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. dead, the dead: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. dead: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dead: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dead: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dead: Vocabulary.com
  6. Dead, dead: Wordnik
  7. dead, the dead: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. dead: Wiktionary
  9. dead: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. dead: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. dead: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. dead, the dead: Dictionary.com
  13. dead: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. dead: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. DEAD, Dead (Madison Beer song), Dead (My Chemical Romance song), Dead (Obituary album), Dead (Young Fathers album), Dead (disambiguation), Dead (musician), Dead, The Dead (American Horror Story), The Dead (Higson novel), The Dead (Kracht novel), The Dead (band), The Dead (disambiguation), The Dead (poem), The Dead (short story), The Dead, The dead: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Dead: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. dead: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. dead: Rhymezone
  19. dead: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. dead: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. DEAD: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  22. DEAD: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  23. Dead, Dead, Dead: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  24. dead: Free Dictionary
  25. dead: Mnemonic Dictionary
  26. dead: Dictionary/thesaurus
  27. dead: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Stamp Collecting Terms (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. dead: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. dead: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. dead: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. dead: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. DEAD: Acronym Finder
  4. dead: Idioms

Slang (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. dead, dead, dead, dead, dead, dead: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. dead: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. Dead: Dublin Slang and Phrasebook
  4. dead: The Folk File
  5. Dead: Urban Dictionary

Sports (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dead: Dan's Poker
  2. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  3. Dead: Sports Definitions

(Note: See deader as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (usually not comparable) No longer living; deceased. (Also used as a noun.)
adjective:  (usually not comparable) Devoid of living things; barren.
adjective:  (hyperbolic) Figuratively, not alive; lacking life.
adjective:  (of another person) So hated or offensive as to be absolutely shunned, ignored, or ostracized.
adjective:  Doomed; marked for death; as good as dead (literally or as a hyperbole).
adjective:  Without emotion; impassive.
adjective:  Stationary; static; immobile or immovable.
adjective:  Without interest to one of the senses; dull; flat.
adjective:  Unproductive; fallow.
adjective:  Past, bygone, vanished.
adjective:  (of a place) Lacking usual activity; unexpectedly quiet or empty of people.
adjective:  (not comparable, of a machine, device, or electrical circuit) Completely inactive; currently without power; without a signal; not live.
adjective:  (of a battery) Unable to emit power, being discharged (flat) or faulty.
adjective:  (not comparable) Broken or inoperable.
adjective:  (not comparable) No longer used or required.
adjective:  (engineering) Intentionally designed so as not to impart motion or power.
adjective:  (not comparable, sports) Not in play.
adjective:  (not comparable, golf, of a golf ball) Lying so near the hole that the player is certain to hole it in the next stroke.
adjective:  (not comparable, baseball, slang, 1800s) Tagged out.
adjective:  (not comparable) Full and complete (usually applied to nouns involving lack of motion, sound, activity, or other signs of life).
adjective:  (not comparable) Exact; on the dot.
adjective:  Experiencing pins and needles (paresthesia).
adjective:  (text messaging or Internet slang, sometimes as a standalone word, often with 💀) Expresses an emotional reaction associated with hyperbolic senses of die:
adjective:  (hyperbolic) Dying of laughter.
adjective:  Expresses shock, second-hand embarrassment, etc.
adjective:  (acoustics) Constructed so as not to reflect or transmit sound; soundless; anechoic.
adjective:  (obsolete) Bringing death; deadly.
adjective:  (law) Cut off from the rights of a citizen; deprived of the power of enjoying the rights of property.
adjective:  (rare, especially religion, often with "to") Indifferent to; having no obligation toward; no longer subject to or ruled by (sin, guilt, pleasure, etc).
adjective:  (linguistics) Of a syllable in languages such as Thai and Burmese: ending abruptly.
adverb:  (degree, informal, colloquial) Exactly.
adverb:  (degree, informal, colloquial) Very, absolutely, extremely.
adverb:  Suddenly and completely.
adverb:  (informal) As if dead.
noun:  (often with "the") Time when coldness, darkness, or stillness is most intense.
noun:  (with "the") Those who have died: dead people.
noun:  (UK) (usually in the plural) Sterile mining waste, often present as many large rocks stacked inside the workings.
verb:  (transitive) To prevent by disabling; to stop.
verb:  (transitive) To make dead; to deaden; to deprive of life, force, or vigour.
verb:  (transitive, UK, US, slang) To kill.
verb:  (transitive, African-American Vernacular, slang, by extension) To discontinue or put an end to (something).
noun:  (bodybuilding, colloquial) Clipping of deadlift. [(weightlifting) A weight training exercise where one lifts a loaded barbell off the ground from a stabilized bent-over position.]
noun:  (organic chemistry) Initialism of diethyl azodicarboxylate.

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