Dead

(noun.) people who are no longer living; 'they buried the dead'.

(noun.) a time when coldness (or some other quality associated with death) is intense; 'the dead of winter'.

(adj.) devoid of activity; 'this is a dead town; nothing ever happens here' .

(adj.) physically inactive; 'Crater Lake is in the crater of a dead volcano of the Cascade Range' .

(adj.) no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life; 'the nerve is dead'; 'a dead pallor'; 'he was marked as a dead man by the assassin' .

(adj.) not showing characteristics of life especially the capacity to sustain life; no longer exerting force or having energy or heat; 'Mars is a dead planet'; 'dead soil'; 'dead coals'; 'the fire is dead' .

(adj.) drained of electric charge; discharged; 'a dead battery'; 'left the lights on and came back to find the battery drained' .

(adj.) no longer having force or relevance; 'a dead issue' .

(adj.) out of use or operation because of a fault or breakdown; 'a dead telephone line'; 'the motor is dead' .

(adj.) lacking resilience or bounce; 'a dead tennis ball' .

(adj.) not surviving in active use; 'Latin is a dead language' .

(adj.) unerringly accurate; 'a dead shot'; 'took dead aim' .

(adj.) not yielding a return; 'dead capital'; 'idle funds' .

(adj.) lacking acoustic resonance; 'dead sounds characteristic of some compact discs'; 'the dead wall surfaces of a recording studio' .

(adj.) devoid of physical sensation; numb; 'his gums were dead from the novocain'; 'she felt no discomfort as the dentist drilled her deadened tooth'; 'a public desensitized by continuous television coverage of atrocities' .

(adj.) complete; 'came to a dead stop'; 'utter seriousness' .

(adj.) not circulating or flowing; 'dead air'; 'dead water'; 'stagnant water' .

(adj.) (followed by `to') not showing human feeling or sensitivity; unresponsive; 'passersby were dead to our plea for help'; 'numb to the cries for mercy' .

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• For instance, if he took his supper after a hard day, to the Dead March in Saul, his food might be likely to sit heavy on him. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• The table was of the usual European style --cushions dead and twice as high as the balls; the cues in bad repair. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Dead, your Majesty. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• This was Brother Alexander--dead two hundred and eighty years. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• One was not sure that he _was_ dead. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• He left his dead and nearly all his wounded in our hands, and about four hundred prisoners and several hundred horses. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• She's not dead: her eye-lids are quivering, and here's wet tears a-coming down her cheeks. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• And I longed to do it--but there was such a dead silence! 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• This was found between the finger and thumb of the dead man. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• I was like the Arabian who had been buried with the dead, and found a passage to life aided only by one glimmering, and seemingly ineffectual light. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• They shall behold the antipodes of what is real--for I will appear to live--while I am--dead. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Now, Thquire, I can take my oath, from my knowledge of that dog, that that man wath dead—and buried—afore that dog come back to me. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• Dead there on the slope on such a day as this is. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• But Mr Justinian must think us dead. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• By the dead hands at my throat but he shall die, Bar Comas. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.

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