LekhoriLekhoriNo longer living; deceased. (Also used as a noun.
All of my grandparents are dead.
Devoid of living things; barren.
a dead planet
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.
Exactly.
dead right; dead level; dead flat; dead straight; dead left
Very, absolutely, extremely.
Time when coldness, darkness, or stillness is most intense.
Near-synonym: nadir
To prevent by disabling; to 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”
From Middle English ded, deed, from Old English dēad, from Proto-West Germanic *daud, from Proto-Germanic *daudaz. Compare West Frisian dead, dea, Dutch dood, German tot, Danish, Norwegian død, Norweg...
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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.
Initialism of diethyl azodicarboxylate.
To make dead; to deaden; to deprive of life, force, or vigour.
Heaven's stern decree, / With many an ill, hath numb'd and deaded me.
To kill.
I shoulda deaded it from genesis instead of hittin' the Guinnesses