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dead
adjective as in no longer alive
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asleep, bereft of life, bloodless, bought the farm, breathless, cadaverous, checked out, cut off, defunct, done for, erased, expired, extinct, gone, gone to meet maker, gone to reward, liquidated, no more, not existing, offed, out of one's misery, passed away, perished, pushing up daisies, reposing, resting in peace
adjective as in physically or emotionally numb; insensitive
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anesthetized, apathetic, callous, deadened, frigid, senseless, spiritless, torpid, unanimated
adjective as in not working
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adjective as in without vitality; boring; dull
Strongest matches
boring, flat, spiritless, unanimated, uninteresting, vapid, wooden
Strong match
adverb as in completely or exactly
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direct, directly, entirely, exactly, straightly, undeviatingly, wholly
Example Sentences
But in December 2006 it became headline news when Michael Lyons, 21, was shot dead after two masked gunmen walked into his uncle's MoT garage.
Her body was described by authorities as being decomposed, suggesting she had been dead for a while.
A strike on a house in central Gaza left at least 11 people dead - more that half of them women and children - according to officials at al-Ahli Arab hospital in Gaza City.
A man in his 50s was confirmed dead at the scene with seven others, including emergency service workers, treated at the scene and at hospital, West Midlands Police said.
In this sense, hagiography is not simply about remembering the dead: It mobilizes the living.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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