Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word dead. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in dead.
Definitions and meaning of dead
dead
Etymology
From Middle Englishded, deed, from Old Englishdēad, from Proto-West Germanic*daud, from Proto-Germanic*daudaz.
Compare West Frisiandead, dea, Dutchdood, Germantot, Danish, Norwegiandød, Norwegian Nynorskdaud.
Pronunciation
enPR: dĕd, IPA(key): /dɛd/
Rhymes: -ɛd
(West Country) IPA(key): /diːd/
Adjective
dead (comparativedeader, superlativedeadest)
(usually not comparable) No longer living.
1968, Ray Thomas, "Legend of a Mind", The Moody Blues, In Search of the Lost Chord.
(usually not comparable) Devoid of life.
(hyperbolic) Figuratively, not alive; lacking life.
(of another person) So hated that they are absolutely ignored.
Doomed; marked for death (literally or as a hyperbole).
Without emotion.
Stationary; static.
Without interest to one of the senses; dull; flat.
Unproductive.
(not comparable, of a machine, device, or electrical circuit) Completely inactive; currently without power; without a signal.
(of a battery) Unable to emit power, being discharged (flat) or faulty.
(not comparable) Broken or inoperable.
(not comparable) No longer used or required.
1984, Winston Smock, Technical Writing for Beginners, page 148:
No mark of any kind should ever be made on a dead manuscript.
2017, Zhaomo Yang and Brian Johannesmeyer, "Dead Store Elimination (Still) Considered Harmful":
In this paper, we survey the set of techniques found in the wild that are intended to prevent data-scrubbing operations from being removed during dead store elimination.
(engineering) Not imparting motion or power by design.
(not comparable, sports) Not in play.
(not comparable, golf, of a golf ball) Lying so near the hole that the player is certain to hole it in the next stroke.
After sitting on my hands for a while, my arms became dead.
Constructed so as not to transmit sound; soundless.
(obsolete) Bringing death; deadly.
(Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)
(law) Cut off from the rights of a citizen; deprived of the power of enjoying the rights of property.
(rare, especially religion, often with "to") Indifferent to, no longer subject to or ruled by (sin, guilt, pleasure, etc).
1839, William Jenks, The Comprehensive Commentary on the Holy Bible: Acts-Revelation, page 361:
He was dead to the law. Whatever account others might make of it, yet, for his part, he was dead to it. […] But though he was thus dead to the law, yet he […] was far from thinking himself discharged from his duty to God' on the contrary, he was dead to the law, that he might live unto God.
1849, Robert Haldane, Exposition of the Epistle to the Romans, page 255:
But he died to the guilt of sin—to the guilt of his people's sins which he had taken upon him; and they, dying with him, as is above declared, die to sin precisely in the same sense in which he died to it. […] He was not justified from it till his resurrection, but from that moment he was dead to it. When he shall appear the second time, it will be "without sin."
Usage notes
In Middle and Early Modern English, the phrase is dead was more common where the present perfect form has died is common today. Example:
1611, King James Bible
I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain. (Gal. 2:21)
Synonyms
See also Thesaurus:dead
Antonyms
alive
living
Translations
Adverb
dead (not comparable)
(degree, informal, colloquial) Exactly.
dead right; dead level; dead flat; dead straight; dead left
dead wrong; dead set; dead serious; dead drunk; dead broke; dead earnest; dead certain; dead slow; dead sure; dead simple; dead honest; dead accurate; dead easy; dead scared; dead solid; dead black; dead white; dead empty
Suddenly and completely.
He stopped dead.
(informal) As if dead.
dead tired; dead quiet; dead asleep; dead pale; dead cold; dead still
I was tired of reading, and dead sleepy.
Translations
Noun
dead (uncountable)
(often with "the") Time when coldness, darkness, or stillness is most intense.
The dead of night.The dead of winter.
deadpl (plural only)
(with "the", a demonstrative, or a possessive) Those who have died.
Have respect for the dead.
The villagers are mourning their dead.
The dead are always with us, in our hearts.
dead (pluraldeads)
(Britain)(usually in the plural) Sterile mining waste, often present as many large rocks stacked inside the workings.
Synonyms
(those who have died): deceased
Translations
Verb
dead (third-person singular simple presentdeads, present participledeading, simple past and past participledeaded)
(transitive) To prevent by disabling; stop.
1826, The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Edward Reynolds, Lord Bishop of Norwich, collected by Edward Reynolds, Benedict Riveley, and Alexander Chalmers. pp. 227. London: B. Holdsworth.
“What a man should do, when finds his natural impotency dead him in spiritual works”
(transitive) To make dead; to deaden; to deprive of life, force, or vigour.
(Britain, transitive, slang) To kill.
Related terms
deaden
deadliness
deadly
deadness
death
undead
Derived terms
References
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Anagrams
Dade, Edda, adde, dade
French
Etymology
From Englishdead.
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /dɛd/
Verb
dead
(slang, anglicism) to succeed (in doing something well, "killing it")
Usage notes
The verb is left unconjugated: il dead, il a dead. Usage is limited to the present, as well as an infinitive or a past participle.
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic*daud.
Cognate with Old Frisiandād (West Frisiandead), Old Saxondōd, Dutchdood, Old High Germantōt (Germantot), Old Norsedauðr (Swedishdöd), Gothic𐌳𐌰𐌿𐌸𐍃(dauþs).
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /dæ͜ɑːd/
Adjective
dēad
dead
Declension
Derived terms
dēadlīċ
healfdēad
Related terms
dēaþ
Descendants
Middle English: ded, deed
Scots: dede, deed, deid
English: dead
Yola: deed
See also
steorfan
Volapük
Etymology
Borrowed from Englishdead or death (with the "th" changed to "d").