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- dead endA street or path or tunnel that goes nowhere or is blocked on one end.
- Book of the DeadAn ancient Egyptian funerary text of the New Kingdom consisting of spells to assist the journey of the dead into the afterlife, developed from the earlier Coffin Texts.
- Dead SeaA lake in the Middle East in Palestine and Jordan, noted for high salinity and for its banks being the lowest land-based elevation on Earth.
- drop-deadVery impressively or spectacularly.
- raise the deadTo resurrect a dead person, or dead people in general; to reanimate the corpse of someone, rendering them undead.
- brain-deadHaving an irreversible loss of brain function and cessation of brain activity.
- dead linkAn HTML hypertext link that points to a webpage or website that is permanently unavailable.
- dead handA residual undesirable influence from the past.
- dead weightUnremitting heavy weight that does not move.
- dead languageA language which no longer has any native speakers.
- Day of the DeadA Mexican holiday, held on November 1 and 2, and associated with the Catholic celebrations of All Saints' Day and All Souls' Day.
- dead or aliveEither dead or alive.
- dead manA dead man's switch.
- dead of nightMiddle of the night.
- play deadTo lie very still, like a corpse.
- dead centerSynonym of dead point: the position at which a crank is in a direct line with a connecting rod.
- dead letterAn item of mail that cannot be delivered to its intended recipient; after some time it is returned to the sender, or destroyed.
- raising the deadpresent participle of raise the dead: To resurrect a dead person, or dead people in general; to reanimate the corpse of someone, rendering them undead.
- Found dead
- dead wrongUtterly wrong.
- living deadThe undead; zombies, vampires, etc.
- dead on arrivalFound to be dead upon arriving at hospital.
- dead in the waterStationary with respect to the current, having no means of propulsion.
- dead treeMade of or pertaining to paper, especially as opposed to a digital alternative.
- leave for deadTo abandon a person or other living creature that is injured or otherwise incapacitated, assuming that the death of the one abandoned will soon follow.
Compound words 160
- undeadNot dead; alive.
- deadbeatA lazy or irresponsible person who is often unemployed, often depending upon wealthy or otherwise financially independent people for support.
- deadpanDeliberately impassive or expressionless.
- deadwoodDead branches or wood on a tree, or coarse woody debris.
- deadliftA weight training exercise where one lifts a loaded barbell off the ground from a stabilized bent-over position.
- deadmanA long object, often a timber or log, buried to serve as an anchor for a wall or for stays.
- deadheadA person either admitted to a theatrical or musical performance without charge, or paid to attend.
- deadenTo render less lively; to diminish; to muffle.
- deadeyeVery accurate in shooting or throwing.
- deadfallCoarse woody debris; deadwood.