dead
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: dĕd
ipa: /dɛd/
rhymes: -ɛd
ipa: /diːd/
Forms: form: deads
form: deading
form: deaded
form: deaded
Etymology: 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, Norwegian Nynorsk daud.
Senses: examples: 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”
glosses: To prevent by disabling; to stop.
examples: text: Heaven's stern decree, / With many an ill, hath numb'd and deaded me.
ref: 1614–1615, Homer, “(please specify the book number)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, →OCLC; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, […], volume (please specify the book number), London: John Russell Smith, […], 1857, →OCLC:
glosses: To make dead; to deaden; to deprive of life, force, or vigour.
examples: text: I shoulda deaded it from genesis instead of hittin' the Guinnesses
ref: 2004, “Guinnesses”, in Mm..Food, performed by MF Doom ft. Angelika & 4-IZE:
text: This dude at the club was trying to kill us so I deaded him, and then I had to collect from Spice.
ref: 2006, Leighanne Boyd, Once Upon A Time In The Bricks, page 178:
text: “What, you was just gonna dead him because if that's the case then why the fuck we getting the money?” Sha asked annoyed.
ref: 2008, Marvlous Harrison, The Coalition, page 106:
text: TOMMY:”Honestly, I’d love to help you with that but I’ve got a surplus of motherfuckers that I need to dead right now.”
ref: 2020 January 6, Courtney A. Kemp, Matt K. Turner, 33:48 from the start, in Power, season 6, episode 11, spoken by Tommy Egan (E Joseph Sikora):
glosses: To kill.
examples: text: "I thought I told you to shut up," said Jesus. "I don't be laying up with chickenheads, so you need to dead that shit before you piss me the fuck off."
ref: 2005, Black Artemis, Picture Me Rollin', New York, N.Y.: New American Library, →ISBN, page 269:
text: "This might be kinda beside the point right now," I said carefully, settling into the chair across from him, "but it's probably time to dead all that open-door no-gun shit, huh?"
ref: 2013, Adam Mansbach, Rage Is Back, New York, N.Y.: Viking, →ISBN, page 140:
text: "Shorty, whatchu got in your pocket? Let me see that hat." ¶ "Nah, man. Dead that." Out would come the .32. ¶ "Oh, aight. You got that, shorty, you got that."
ref: 2018, U-God [Lamont Hawkins], Raw: My Journey Into The Wu-Tang, New York, N.Y.: Picador, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 118:
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: To discontinue or put an end to (something).
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word: alveolar dead space
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word: anatomic dead space
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word: beat a dead horse
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word: better dead than red
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word: better dead than Red
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word: better Dead than Red
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word: better to be late than be dead on time
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word: bottom dead center
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word: braindead
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word: brain-dead
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word: brain dead
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word: civilly dead
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word: clinically dead
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word: come back from the dead
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word: cut someone dead
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word: dead against
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word: dead air
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word: dead-air space
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word: dead-alive
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word: dead amiss
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word: dead-and-alive
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word: dead and buried
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word: dead and gone
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word: dead angle
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word: dead arm syndrome
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word: dead as a dodo
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word: dead as a doorknob
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word: dead as a doornail
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word: dead as a herring
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word: dead as a kipper
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word: dead as a mackerel
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word: dead as ditch-water
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word: dead as Hector
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word: dead asleep
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word: deadass
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word: dead ball
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word: dead-ball era
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word: dead bat
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word: dead-beat
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word: dead beat
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word: deadbeat
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word: dead bedroom
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word: dead bell
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word: dead bird
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word: dead block
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word: deadblow
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word: dead-blow
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word: dead body
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word: deadbolt
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word: dead bolt
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word: deadborn
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word: dead-born
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word: dead-bug
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word: dead cake
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word: dead calm
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word: deadcart
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word: dead cat
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word: dead-cat bounce
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word: dead cat bounce
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word: dead-center
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word: dead center
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word: dead-centered
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word: dead centre
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word: dead cert
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word: dead click
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word: dead-clothes
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word: dead code
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word: dead coloring
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word: dead colouring
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word: dead comet
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word: dead donkey
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word: dead door
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word: dead dove
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word: dead-drop
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word: dead drop
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word: dead drunk
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word: dead duck
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word: deadend
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word: dead end
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word: dead-end
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word: dead-ender
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word: deader than a doornail
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word: deader than disco
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word: dead-eye
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word: deadeye
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word: dead-eyed
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word: dead-eye Dick
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word: deadfall
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word: dead finish
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word: dead first
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word: dead fish
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word: dead flat
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word: dead fly biscuit
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word: dead freight
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word: dead from the neck up
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word: dead furrow
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word: dead giveaway
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word: dead ground
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word: dead hand
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word: dead-handed
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word: deadhanded
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word: dead-handedness
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word: dead hang
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word: Deadhead
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word: deadhead
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word: deadheader
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word: deadheading
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word: dead-hearted
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word: deadhearted
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word: dead-heartedly
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word: deadheartedly
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word: deadheartedness
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word: dead-heartedness
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word: dead heat
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word: dead horse
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word: dead house
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word: deadhouse
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word: dead ice
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word: dead-in-shell
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word: dead inside
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word: dead internet theory
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word: dead in the train
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word: dead in the water
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word: deadish
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word: deaditor
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word: dead key
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word: deadland
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word: dead language
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word: dead last
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word: deadlatch
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word: dead leaf
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word: dead-leg
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word: dead leg
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word: deadleg
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word: dead letter
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word: dead letter office
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word: dead level
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word: deadlight
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word: dead-light
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word: deadlike
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word: deadline
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word: dead line
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word: dead link
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word: dead load
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word: deadlock
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word: dead loss
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word: dead man
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word: deadman
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word: dead man's arm
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word: dead man's brake
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word: dead man's fingers
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word: dead man's float
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word: dead man's hand
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word: dead man's handle
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word: dead man's penny
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word: dead man's rope
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word: dead man's switch
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word: dead man walking
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word: dead-march
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word: dead march
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word: dead marine
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word: dead meat
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word: dead media
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word: dead melt
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word: dead-melt
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word: dead men
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word: dead men can tell no tales
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word: dead men's bells
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word: dead men's fingers
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word: dead men's shoes
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word: dead men tell no tales
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word: dead metaphor
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word: dead money
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word: dead name
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word: deadname
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word: dead-name
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word: dead-naming
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word: dead 'n' buried
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word: deadness
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word: deadnettle
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word: dead-nuts
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word: dead nuts
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word: dead of night
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word: dead of winter
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word: dead oil
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word: dead-on
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word: dead on
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word: dead on arrival
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word: dead on one's feet
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word: dead on the vine
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word: dead or alive
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word: deadpan
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word: dead pan
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word: dead-pan
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word: dead-pay
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word: dead person walking
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word: dead pixel
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word: dead plate
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word: dead pledge
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word: dead pool
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word: dead president
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word: dead reckoning
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word: dead-red
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word: dead ringer
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word: dead-ringer
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word: deadrise
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word: dead rise
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word: dead rising
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word: dead roll
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word: dead room
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word: dead-rope
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word: dead rubber
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word: dead run
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word: Dead Sea
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word: dead sea
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word: dead section
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word: dead-set
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word: dead set
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word: dead set against
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word: dead shot
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word: dead silence
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word: dead sleep
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word: dead soldier
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word: dead space
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word: dead spot
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word: dead stand
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word: deadstart
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word: deadstick
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word: dead stick
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word: dead sticking
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word: deadstock
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word: dead stock
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word: dead-stock
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word: dead stop
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word: dead-stroke
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word: dead-stroke hammer
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word: dead tail
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word: dead time
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word: deadtime
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word: dead tired
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word: dead to rights
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word: dead to the world
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word: dead tree
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word: dead-tree
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word: dead tree edition
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word: dead-tree edition
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word: deadvoice
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word: dead wagon
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word: dead wall
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word: dead water
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word: dead week
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word: dead weight
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word: dead white European male
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word: dead wind
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word: dead woman walking
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word: deadwood
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word: Deadwood
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word: dead wood
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word: deadwork
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word: deadworks
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word: dead wrong
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word: dead-wrong
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word: dead yard
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word: dead zone
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word: double-dead meat
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word: draw dead
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word: drier than a dead dingo's donger
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word: drop-dead
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word: drop dead
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word: dry as a dead dingo's donga
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word: dry as a dead dingo's donger
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word: fit to wake the dead
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word: flog a dead horse
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word: flog a dead pony
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word: my cold, dead hands
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word: the dead
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word: genetic dead end
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word: halfdead
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word: half-dead
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word: half dead
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word: heavy as a dead donkey
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word: kill someone dead
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word: knock dead
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word: lantern of the dead
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word: leave for dead
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word: like kicking dead whales down the beach
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word: link-dead
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word: live end dead end
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word: living dead
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word: medium dead
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word: more dead than alive
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word: nearly-dead
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word: netdead
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word: nondead
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word: nose-dead
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word: not be caught dead
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word: on dead dogs
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word: only dead fish go with the flow
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word: over my dead body
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word: parallel dead space
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word: physiologic dead space
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word: play dead
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word: pre-dead
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word: predead
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word: put the dead wood on
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word: Queen Anne's dead
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word: raise from the dead
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word: raise the dead
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word: red dead man's fingers
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word: red dead-nettle
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word: redhanded
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word: red-handed
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word: rise from the dead
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word: semidead
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word: sit dead-red
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word: stone dead
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word: stone-dead
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word: stop dead
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word: temporal dead zone
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word: top dead center
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word: to wake the dead
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word: trumpet of the dead
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word: undead
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word: wake the dead
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word: wake up dead
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word: walking dead
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word: wouldn't be caught dead
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word: wouldn't be seen dead
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word: you're a long time dead
Related terms: deaden
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