Sentence:  The safe is a repository for three <WSD>dead</WSD> flashlight batteries , a hundred and fifty unused left-hand fingerprint cards , a stack of unsold Policemen's Ball tickets from last year , and thirty-seven cents in coins and stamps . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  not showing characteristics of life especially the capacity to sustain life; no longer exerting force or having energy or heat