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▸ 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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brain dead,
stone-dead,
deceased,
defunct,
deathly,
deathlike,
doomed,
slain,
all in,
bushed,
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