(a.) 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.
(a.) Destitute of life; inanimate; as, dead matter.
(a.) Resembling death in appearance or quality; without show of life; deathlike; as, a dead sleep.
(a.) Still as death; motionless; inactive; useless; as, dead calm; a dead load or weight.
(a.) So constructed as not to transmit sound; soundless; as, a dead floor.
(a.) Unproductive; bringing no gain; unprofitable; as, dead capital; dead stock in trade.
(a.) Lacking spirit; dull; lusterless; cheerless; as, dead eye; dead fire; dead color, etc.
(a.) Monotonous or unvaried; as, a dead level or pain; a dead wall.
(a.) Sure as death; unerring; fixed; complete; as, a dead shot; a dead certainty.
(a.) Bringing death; deadly.
(a.) Wanting in religious spirit and vitality; as, dead faith; dead works.
(a.) Flat; without gloss; -- said of painting which has been applied purposely to have this effect.
(a.) Not brilliant; not rich; thus, brown is a dead color, as compared with crimson.
(a.) Cut off from the rights of a citizen; deprived of the power of enjoying the rights of property; as, one banished or becoming a monk is civilly dead.
(a.) Not imparting motion or power; as, the dead spindle of a lathe, etc. See Spindle.
(adv.) To a degree resembling death; to the last degree; completely; wholly.
(n.) The most quiet or deathlike time; the period of profoundest repose, inertness, or gloom; as, the dead of winter.
(n.) One who is dead; -- commonly used collectively.
(v. t.) To make dead; to deaden; to deprive of life, force, or vigor.
(v. i.) To die; to lose life or force.
Example Sentences:
(1) The number of dead from the bombing has been put at up to 1,654.
(2) As of November, 1988 after a median observation period of 34 months, 174 of the 256 patients (68%) were alive, 11 (4%) dead and 71 (28%) lost to follow-up.
(3) Comparisons of ICR locations were made between flexion and extension, between left and right limbs, and between living and dead dogs, using analysis of variance.
(4) Transient intermediates were distinguished from dead-end metabolites by the rapid formation and disappearance of the former.
(5) A further 23 Syrian Kurds , among them women and children, were shot dead in the nearby village of Barkh Butan, the group said.
(6) Pathologic examination demonstrates calcifications in the dead collagen that makes up catgut suture.
(7) The results of the study suggest that perhaps tobramycin of cefotaxime-impregnated PMMA beads would produce local levels of antibiotic high enough to sterilize a given dead space for a period of 28 days.
(8) One of the most recent was in June last year, when a boatload of anglers came across a dead 23ft squid off Port Salerno on the state's Atlantic coast.
(9) The move was confirmed by a Lib Dem aide, who said Tory claims to be green were "already a lame duck and are now dead in the water".
(10) No names of the dead or injured have been published.
(11) Both of these bills include restrictions on moving terrorists into our country.” The White House quickly confirmed the president would have to sign the legislation but denied this meant that its upcoming plan for closing Guantánamo was, in the words of one reporter, “dead on arrival”.
(12) It was found that the increase of AMI patients admitted to our hospital was due to an increase in the hospitalization rate of AMI patients and the establishment of the coronary care unit (CCU) which allowed the admittance of patients who might have been declared dead out-of-hospital in the past.
(13) He was fighting to breathe.” The decision on her father’s case came just 10 days after a grand jury in Ferguson, Missouri, found there was not enough evidence to indict a white police officer for shooting dead an unarmed black teenager called Michael Brown.
(14) Nine of these patients are dead; four are alive, with three of these having progressive disease.
(15) In 2009, a US army major shot 13 dead in Fort Hood, Texas .
(16) Among the dead were two young young officers, Major Mujahid Ali and Captain Usman, whose life stories the media seized upon, helped by the military's public relations machine.
(17) The Nigerian government has been heavily criticised for failing to protect civilians in an increasingly violent conflict that left about 10,000 dead last year.
(18) Twenty-two per cent of all deaths (10 children who died outside hospital and six who were certified dead on admission) occurred before specialist care was reached.
(19) necrobiotic and dead cells, cell debris and phagosomes appear electively fluorescent.
(20) Byrom had been scheduled to die by lethal injection last week for hiring a man to shoot dead her abusive husband, Edward, at their home in Iuka in June 1999.
Sped
Definition:
() imp. & p. p. of Speed.
(imp. & p. p.) of Speed
Example Sentences:
(1) The Freedom Act ultimately sped to passage in the House on May 22 by a bipartisan 303-121 vote .
(2) Algarve map Sophie Cooke The drive west from Faro airport was easy and we sped along the fast toll-road.
(3) But as she sped along the pavement in Westminster yesterday, captured on film by cameramen and baffled tourists alike, repeating the words "we won!
(4) In addition, he teamed up with Mick Jagger to record the fundraising single Dancing in the Street , which sped to No 1.
(5) The demons that came with density were more obvious back then: the cholera epidemic; the fact that just as cities sped the flow of ideas, so they sped the flow of disease, too; the crime that was so associated with Victorian London .
(6) Two militia volunteers broke the windscreen of a nearby Toyota and sped off in it.
(7) The car increasingly threatened violence, not just for what its driver could do when he arrived at Laquan’s final destination, but as it jeopardized others with impunity as it drove on the wrong side of the road, sped past residences, and blew through a stop sign.
(8) He had captured the often frenetic atmosphere of Marrakech via "six cameras mounted on a magic wand that were shooting simultaneously as I sped along the crowded streets on the back of a motorbike".
(9) Some kept their eyes to the ground as they left the huge hangars and sped away to language lessons, waving their arms to fend off reporters.
(10) It’s possible that something could be sped up,” the official said of the potential for imposing new unilateral sanctions on North Korea.
(11) Marking Google's 15th birthday, Hummingbird is the biggest change to the inner workings of the world's most popular search engine since Google's "Caffeine" update in 2010 , which sped up Google's indexing of sites and delivery of search results.
(12) Substitution of polyethylenimine for polybrene sped up the analysis because the precycling employed to condition polybrene-coated glass fiber filters was no longer necessary.
(13) With the guar instillates, the faster outflow slightly sped the emptying of the spheres and significantly increased the diameter of emptied particles of 99mTc-labeled chicken liver.
(14) All substances studied but glycerol sped up the deamidation of albumin and gamma-globulin preparations both during thermal denaturation and incubation.
(15) Watford took the free-kick, sped up the other end and promptly won a rather soft penalty, after O’Shea and Lamine Koné simultaneously ran into Jurado, the referee blaming the former as he blew his whistle.
(16) Beyond the stadium, Rio felt like a militarised zone as 25,000 police and soldiers flooded the city and outriders sped heads of state including Merkel and the Russian president Vladimir Putin through the traffic.
(17) Having changed out of the white tracksuit he was wearing when he left Scotland into a dark suit and burgundy tie, Megrahi left the plane with the Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's son Saif, who raised his hand to the crowd before they sped off in a convoy of white sedans.
(18) But as the truck full of frightened schoolgirls sped deeper into Boko Haram territory, two sisters clasped hands and jumped off together into the night.
(19) Still in her nightgown, she was carried to a small boat before the raiders sped away.
(20) Cassini, the scientists discovered, sped up and slowed down by a few millimetres per second as it flew past Enceladus.