dead

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Definitions

Phrases

• dead ahead
• dead and buried
• dead as a doornail
• dead beat
• dead drunk
• dead duck
• dead end
• dead from the neck up
• dead heat
• dead horse
• dead in one's tracks
• dead in the water
• dead letter
• dead loss
• dead man
• dead of
• dead on one's feet
• dead ringer
• dead set against
• dead soldier
• dead tired
• dead to rights

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Examples

• Police responded to the scene, and Onyeuka was pronounced dead.

• Your movement might be dead, but there is a place for you to go.

• It was an image of a dead woodcock lying on the street in New York City.

• In quantum mechanics, this weird “is the cat alive or dead” state is dubbed superposition.

• The Gleasons tell people who have observed lethargic or dead birds around their homes to take down their feeders for two weeks, so local birds can disperse and find food in the wild.

• The cartoonist, better known as Charb, was shot dead Wednesday.

• A policewoman was shot dead this morning while law enforcement searched for the Charlie Lebdo killers.

• Absent a body, no one can say with absolute certainty whether Castro is dead, even if all signs point in that direction.

• The two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is dead.

• Yes, Byrd—dead four-and-a-half years now—was a Kleagle in the Ku Klux Klan.

• A little boy of four was moved to passionate grief at the sight of a dead dog taken from a pond.

• When he plays a sonata it is as if the composition rose from the dead and stood transfigured before you.