Skip to main content

dead

/ded/US // dɛd //UK // (dɛd) //

死亡,死,死人,死的

Related Words

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    dead·er, dead·est.

    • : no longer living; deprived of life: dead people; dead flowers; dead animals.
    • : brain-dead.
    • : not endowed with life; inanimate: dead stones.
    • : resembling death; deathlike: a dead sleep;a dead faint.
    • : bereft of sensation; numb: He was half dead with fright.My leg feels dead.
    • : lacking sensitivity of feeling; insensitive: dead to the needs of others.
    • : incapable of being emotionally moved; unresponsive: dead to the nuances of the music.
    • : no longer felt; ended; extinguished: a dead passion;dead affections.
    • : no longer current or prevalent, as in effect, significance, or practice; obsolete: a dead law;a dead controversy.
    • : no longer functioning, operating, or productive: a dead motor;a dead battery.
    • : not moving or circulating; stagnant; stale: dead water;dead air.
    • : utterly tired; exhausted: They felt dead from the six-hour trip.
    • : no longer in use as a sole means of oral communication among a people: Latin is a dead language.
    • : without vitality, spirit, enthusiasm, or the like: a dead party.
    • : lacking the customary activity; dull; inactive: a dead business day.
    • : complete; absolute: dead silence;The plan was a dead loss.
    • : sudden or abrupt, as the complete stoppage of an action: The bus came to a dead stop.
    • : put out; extinguished: a dead cigarette.
    • : without resilience or bounce: a dead tennis ball.
    • : infertile; barren: dead land.
    • : exact; precise: the dead center of a circle.
    • : accurate; sure; unerring: a dead shot.
    • : direct; straight: a dead line.
    • : tasteless or flat, as a beverage: a dead soft drink.
    • : flat rather than glossy, bright, or brilliant: The house was painted dead white.
    • : without resonance; anechoic: dead sound;a dead wall surface of a recording studio.
    • : not fruitful; unproductive: dead capital.
    • : Law. deprived of civil rights so that one is in the state of civil death, especially deprived of the rights of property.
    • : Sports. out of play: a dead ball.
    • : lying so close to the hole as to make holing on the next stroke a virtual certainty.
    • : having been used or rejected.
    • : Electricity. free from any electric connection to a source of potential difference and from electric charge.not having a potential different from that of the earth.
    • : Metallurgy. fully killed.unresponsive to heat treatment.
    • : no longer sensitive to the pressure of a bit.
    • : noting any rope in a tackle that does not pass over a pulley or is not rove through a block.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the period of greatest darkness, coldness, etc.: the dead of night; the dead of winter.
    • : the dead, dead persons collectively: Prayers were recited for the dead.
adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1
    • : absolutely; completely: dead right;dead tired.
    • : with sudden and total stoppage of motion, action, or the like: He stopped dead.
    • : directly; exactly; straight: The island lay dead ahead.

Phrases

  • dead ahead
  • dead and buried
  • dead as a doornail
  • dead beat
  • dead drunk
  • dead duck
  • dead end
  • dead from the neck up
  • dead heat
  • dead horse
  • dead in one's tracks
  • dead in the water
  • dead letter
  • dead loss
  • dead man
  • dead of
  • dead on one's feet
  • dead ringer
  • dead set against
  • dead soldier
  • dead tired
  • dead to rights
  • dead to the world
  • dead weight
  • beat a dead horse
  • caught dead
  • cut someone dead
  • drop dead
  • knock dead
  • more dead than alive
  • over my dead body
  • quick and the dead
  • stop cold (dead)
  • to wake the dead

Synonyms & Antonyms

adj.no longer alive
Forms: deads
Synonyms
asleep睡觉,睡眠,睡着了,睡觉的时候buried埋在地下的,被埋葬的,埋藏的,埋葬的deceased已故的,已去世的,已故,已去世late迟到的,迟来的,迟到了,晚了lifeless无生命,无生命的,无生命力,没有生命力cold冷,寒冷,冷的,寒冷的departed逝去的,离开了,离去的,离去stiff僵硬的,坚硬的,僵硬,坚硬bereft of life没命了,没命,没有生命,丧生bloodless无血,无血的,不流血,不流血的bought the farm买下农场,买了农场,买下了农场,购买了农场breathless气喘吁吁,气喘吁吁的,喘不过气来,喘不过气来的cadaverous尸体的,尸身,尸体,死尸checked out签出,检查出,签出了,检查了cut off截断,切断,斩断,断defunct已停业,已停用,停业,停用done for已完成的,已完成,所做的,已完成的有erased删除的,擦除的,抹去了,抹去的expired过期,过期的,过期了,已过期extinct绝迹了,灭绝了,绝种了,已灭绝gone走了,消失了,消失的,消失了的gone to meet maker去见造物主了,去见造物主,去见造物者了,去见制造者了gone to reward奖赏去了,奖赏了,奖赏,奖励了inanimate无生命的,无生命,无生命体,没有生命的inert惰性,惰性的,惰性气体,懒惰mortified羞愧难当,惭愧,羞愧,感到羞愧no more没有了,不再有,没有更多,不再是not existing不存在,不存在的,不存,未有offed下台了,下岗了,下场,下岗out of one's miserypassed away去世,辞世,逝世,去世了perished灭亡,亡故,殒命,亡故的pushing up daisies推举菊花,推举菊花的人,推举菊花的时候,推举菊花的做法reposing定居,定居的,定居者,定居点resting in peace安息,安息于世,安息吧spiritless没有精神,无精神,魂不守舍,没有精神的unanimated一致通过,一致同意,全票通过,一致认为wasted浪费了,浪费的,荒废了,浪费
Antonyms
adj.indifferent, cold
Forms: deads
Antonyms
adj.not working
Forms: deads
Antonyms
adj.complete, total
Forms: deads
Antonyms

Examples

  • Police responded to the scene, and Onyeuka was pronounced dead.

  • Your movement might be dead, but there is a place for you to go.

  • It was an image of a dead woodcock lying on the street in New York City.

  • In quantum mechanics, this weird “is the cat alive or dead” state is dubbed superposition.

  • The Gleasons tell people who have observed lethargic or dead birds around their homes to take down their feeders for two weeks, so local birds can disperse and find food in the wild.

  • The cartoonist, better known as Charb, was shot dead Wednesday.

  • A policewoman was shot dead this morning while law enforcement searched for the Charlie Lebdo killers.

  • Absent a body, no one can say with absolute certainty whether Castro is dead, even if all signs point in that direction.

  • The two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is dead.

  • Yes, Byrd—dead four-and-a-half years now—was a Kleagle in the Ku Klux Klan.

  • A little boy of four was moved to passionate grief at the sight of a dead dog taken from a pond.

  • When he plays a sonata it is as if the composition rose from the dead and stood transfigured before you.

  • To-day I'm more dead than alive, as we had a lesson from him yesterday that lasted four hours.

  • It is a fearsome thing for a man to be left alone in the dead of night with a young baby.

  • If they are Ancients and dead then let them be buried and left to the archæological excavator.

dead - EE Dictionary | EE Dictionary