Synonym: deceased, dreary, dull, flat, gone, inactive, lifeless. Antonym: alive, living. Similar words: deadly, deadline, deal, idea, death, dealer, deal out, deal in. Meaning: [ded] n. 1. people who are no longer living 2. a time when coldness (or some other quality associated with death) is intense. adj. 1. no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life 2. not showing characteristics of life especially the capacity to sustain life; no longer exerting force or having energy or heat 3. very tired 4. unerringly accurate 5. physically inactive 6. total 7. not endowed with life 8. (followed by `to') not showing human feeling or sensitivity; unresponsive 9. devoid of physical sensation; numb 10. lacking acoustic resonance 11. not yielding a return 12. not circulating or flowing 13. out of use or operation because of a fault or breakdown 14. not surviving in active use 15. lacking resilience or bounce 16. no longer in force or use; inactive 17. no longer having force or relevance 18. sudden and complete 19. drained of electric charge; discharged 20. lacking animation or excitement or activity 21. devoid of activity. adv. 1. quickly and without warning 2. completely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers.
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211. The explorer slept that night on the lip of a dead volcano.
212. The grief-stricken widow refused to leave her dead husband's side.
213. The king is dead and lies buried at Jedburgh Abbey.
214. Walking in the snow barefoot for a few minutes made my toes feel dead.
215. Local people believe she can call up the spirits of the dead.
216. Relatives of the dead made an impassioned plea for the bodies to be flown back to this country.
217. By the seventies the suit was dead, kept for weddings, funerals and job interviews.
218. Fire and police crews rushed to the scene, but the couple were already dead.
219. The names of the dead were inscribed on the wall.
220. He considered it a sacred duty to fulfill his dead father's wishes.
221. He stood staring at the dead body, unable to comprehend.
222. She felt dead on her feet and didn't have the energy to question them further.
223. Most of the dead and injured had been passengers on the bus.
224. His most famous artistic offering consists of a dead shark floating in a tank of formaldehyde.
225. The monument has been turned into a shrine to the dead and the missing.
226. We've lost our way and I am sure we are wandering in a circle.We started from that old dead tree there and have come back to it.
227. They have turned the room into a shrine to their dead son.
228. I'd had no experience of organizing anything of that sort. I think I was largely a dead loss.
229. The first street we tried turned out to be a dead end.
230. As he stepped off the aeroplane,[www.Sentencedict.com] he was shot dead.
231. She had turned the room into a shrine to her dead son.
232. The two candidates are in a dead heat in the polls.
233. There was a two-minute silence as a mark of respect for the dead.
234. With the failure of the experiment, we had reached a dead end.
235. The police tried to chase the dead man's brother up but they had no idea where he lived.
236. Their feet will trample on the dead bodies of their perfidious aggressors.
237. He was shot dead earlier this year in unexplained circumstances.
238. The police are desperate to catch this man dead or alive.
239. He said in his dream he saw the apparition of his dead wife.
240. The young people were still abroad at the dead of night.
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