to dead

Definition of to dead in English English dictionary: No longer used or required
Is this beer glass dead?.; Completely inactive; without power; without a signal
Now that the motor’s dead you can reach in and extract the spark plugs.; Full and complete
dead stop; dead sleep; dead giveaway; dead silence.; Without emotion
She stood with dead face and limp arms, unresponsive to my plea.; No longer living
All of my grandparents are dead.; Experiencing pins and needles (paresthesia)
After sitting on my hands for a while, my arms became dead.; Figuratively, not alive; lacking life
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.; Without interest to one of the senses; dull; flat
dead air; a dead glass of soda.; Very, absolutely, extremely, suddenly
That’s dead sure!.; Exact
dead center; dead aim; a dead eye; a dead level.; plural Those who have died
Have respect for the dead.; Unproductive
dead time; dead fields; also in compounds.; So hated that they are absolutely ignored
He is dead to me.; Stationary; static
the dead load on the floor; a dead lift.; singular Time when coldness, darkness, or stillness is most intense
The dead of night. The dead of winter.; {v} to weaken, to make tasteless; {n} stillness, quietness, silence, gloom, depth; {a} deprived of life, cold, dull, tasteless, lost; dede; deceased; deed; Flat; without gloss; said of painting which has been applied purposely to have this effect; To a degree resembling death; to the last degree; completely; wholly; Exactly right; Lacking spirit; dull; lusterless; cheerless; as, dead eye; dead fire; dead color, etc; 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"; Fully and completely motionless; quickly and without warning; "he stopped suddenly"; zmar [zmar] There's a similar word umar, though I've also heard martwe It's easy to remember: there's a similar cognate in English, as manifest in words like "mortal" and "mortician " Date of entry: 9 May 2000; adj [{of animal} not alive] mati 2 adj [{of person} no longer alive] sudah menginggal (tinggal); (1) (B) having no entry; > si; Obsolete or no longer used or required; 1) Referring to an acoustically absorbent area or space 2) A slang term for broken; emphasis If you say that something such as an idea or situation is dead and buried, you are emphasizing that you think that it is completely finished or past, and cannot happen or exist again in the future. I thought the whole business was dead and buried; Deprived of life; opposed to alive and living; reduced to that state of a being in which the organs of motion and life have irrevocably ceased to perform their functions; as, a dead tree; a dead man; emphasis If you reply `Over my dead body' when a plan or action has been suggested, you are emphasizing that you dislike it, and will do everything you can to prevent it. `Let's invite her to dinner.' --- `Over my dead body!'; Resembling death in appearance or quality; without show of life; deathlike; as, a dead sleep; emphasis Dead means `precisely' or `exactly'. Mars was visible, dead in the centre of the telescope Their arrows are dead on target; A telephone or piece of electrical equipment that is dead is no longer functioning, for example because it no longer has any electrical power. On another occasion I answered the phone and the line went dead; {i} time when there is no life; dead person or persons; physically inactive; "Crater Lake is in the crater of a dead volcano of the Cascade Range"; An 1800s baseball term meaning a player who is tagged out; acoustics A term applied to a space with little reverberation, or a space with too much sound absorbing material in it Music quality suffers more than speech quality in such a space; Completely inactive; without power; emphasis Dead is used to mean `complete' or `absolute', especially before the words `centre', `silence', and `stop'. They hurried about in dead silence, with anxious faces Lila's boat came to a dead stop; So constructed as not to transmit sound; soundless; as, a dead floor; Subclass in the scrub-shrub wetland and forested wetland classes of the Cowardin et al wetland classification in which forested wetlands are dominated by dead woody vegetation (Cowardin et al 1979); Having –10 or fewer current hit points, having died from disease, spell, or magical effect, or having failed a Fortitude save against massive damage Death causes the victim’s soul to leave the body permanently and journey to the realm of the appropriate deity Dead characters cannot benefit from normal or magical healing, but they can be restored to life via raise dead, resurrection, or true resurrection under the circumstances described in those spell descriptions A dead body decays normally unless magically preserved, but magic that restores a dead character to life also restores the body either to full health or to its condition at the time of death (depending on the spell or device); emphasis Dead is sometimes used to mean `very'. I am dead against the legalisation of drugs; emphasis If you say that someone or something is dead in the water, you are emphasizing that they have failed, and that there is little hope of them being successful in the future. A `no' vote would have left the treaty dead in the water; So hated by that they are absolutely ignored; Sure as death; unerring; fixed; complete; as, a dead shot; a dead certainty; Still as death; motionless; inactive; useless; as, dead calm; a dead load or weight; in racing, a dead machine is one that is stopped, or on the ground, out of action; 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"; Persons confirmed as dead and persons missing and presumed dead; A dead language is no longer spoken or written as a means of communication, although it may still be studied. We used to grumble that we were wasting time learning a dead language; emphasis If you say that you wouldn't be seen dead or be caught dead in particular clothes, places, or situations, you are expressing strong dislike or disapproval of them. I wouldn't be seen dead in a straw hat; (followed by `to') not showing human feeling or sensitivity; unresponsive; "passersby were dead to our plea for help"; "numb to the cries for mercy"; Bringing death; deadly; If you say that an idea, plan, or subject is dead, you mean that people are no longer interested in it or willing to develop it any further. It's a dead issue, Baxter; Not alive; lacking life; no longer living; (adj ) SU, shoo; Out of play; regarded as out of the game; said of a ball, a piece, or a player under certain conditions in cricket, baseball, checkers, and some other games; devoid of activity; "this is a dead town; nothing ever happens here"; 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"; Time when coldness, darkness, or stillness is most intense; totally; suddenly; absolutely; certainly; (Slang) extremely, very (e.g., "Our vacation in the Bahamas was dead good"); Broken or inoperable