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📖 Определения и значения для слова dead

📒 no longer alive

  • My mother's dead; she died in 2017.
  • a dead person/animal
  • dead leaves/wood/skin

📒 not working because of a lack of power

  • a dead battery
  • Suddenly the phone went dead.
  • John's mobile was completely dead.

📒 no longer believed in or aimed for

  • Many believe the peace plan is dead.
  • Unfortunately racism is not yet dead.
  • Though the idea may be dead, it is far from being buried (= people still talk about it, even though there is nothing new to say).

📒 belonging to the past; no longer practised or fashionable

  • Is the Western a dead art form?
  • a dead language (= one that is no longer spoken, for example Latin)

📒 finished; not able to be used any more

  • dead matches
  • There were two dead bottles of wine on the table.

📒 very quiet, without activity or interest

  • There were no theatres, no cinemas, no coffee bars. It was dead as anything.

📒 without activity; with nobody buying or selling anything

  • ‘The market is absolutely dead this morning,’ said one foreign exchange trader.
  • Winter is traditionally the dead season for the housing market.

📒 extremely tired; not well

  • half dead with cold and hunger
  • She felt dead on her feet and didn't have the energy to question them further.

📒 unable to feel because of cold, etc.

  • My left arm had gone dead.

📒 unable to feel or understand emotions

  • He was dead to all feelings of pity.

📒 showing no emotion

  • She said, ‘I'm sorry, too,’ in a quiet, dead voice.
  • His usually dead grey eyes were sparkling.

📒 complete or exact

  • a dead silence/calm
  • the dead centre of the target
  • The car gave a sudden jerk and came to a dead stop.

📒 never having been alive

  • dead matter (= for example rock)
  • a dead planet (= one with no life on it)

📒 outside the playing area

  • There was a dead ball with five seconds to go in the game.

📒 to be dead

  • You'll be sorry you said that when I'm dead and gone.
  • That won't happen until long after I'm dead and gone.

📒 to look very like somebody

  • She's a dead ringer for a girl I used to know.

📒 completely dead; no longer interesting or relevant

  • In the second half both teams made substitutions to try and liven things up, but the game was as dead as a dodo.

📒 completely dead

📒 a plan, an event, etc. that has failed or is certain to fail and that is therefore not worth discussing

📒 an influence that controls or limits something

  • We need to free business from the dead hand of bureaucracy.

📒 a person or plan that is dead in the water has failed and has little hope of succeeding in the future

  • His leadership campaign is dead in the water.

📒 in serious trouble

  • If anyone finds out, you're dead meat.

📒 (of an accident victim or other patient) already dead when arriving at a hospital

  • She was pronounced dead on arrival.
  • He didn’t even make it to hospital: DOA.
  • Many of the casualties were dead on arrival.

📒 very unlikely to be successful; not working when it is delivered

  • The bill was dead on arrival in the Senate.
  • The software was DOA.

📒 in a deep sleep

📒 to waste your effort by trying to do something that is no longer possible

📒 to impress somebody very much

  • You look fabulous—you'll knock ’em dead tonight.

📒 used to show you are strongly opposed to something

  • She moves into our home over my dead body.

📒 used to say that you would not like to wear particular clothes, or to be in a particular situation

  • She wouldn't be seen dead in a hat.
  • He wouldn't be caught dead going to a club with his mother.
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