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- I inherited this heirloom from my dead great-grandfather
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- the store is often dead after 4:00 p.m.
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- a long day of traveling left them just dead
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- all in,
- aweary
- [archaic],
- beat,
- beaten,
- bleary,
- burned-out
- (or burnt-out),
- bushed,
- done,
- drained,
- exhausted,
- fatigued,
- jaded,
- knackered
- [British],
- limp,
- logy
- (also loggy),
- played out,
- pooped
- [slang],
- prostrate,
- spent,
- tapped out,
- tired,
- tuckered (out),
- washed-out,
- wearied,
- weary,
- wiped out,
- worn,
- worn-out
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- there was a dead silence following that incredibly moving performance
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- absolute,
- all-out,
- arrant,
- blank,
- blooming
- [chiefly British],
- bodacious
- [Southern & Midland],
- categorical
- (also categoric),
- clean,
- complete,
- consummate,
- crashing,
- damn,
- damned,
- deadly,
- definite,
- downright,
- dreadful,
- fair,
- flat,
- flat-out,
- out-and-out,
- outright,
- perfect,
- plumb,
- profound,
- pure,
- rank,
- regular,
- sheer,
- simple,
- stark,
- stone,
- straight-out,
- thorough,
- thoroughgoing,
- total,
- unadulterated,
- unalloyed,
- unconditional,
- unmitigated,
- unqualified,
- utter,
- very
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- my foot was dead after I absentmindedly sat on it for an hour
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- the dead Babylonian culture
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- local coal mines that have been dead for years
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- fell into a dead faint upon hearing the news
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- from the first sip I could tell that the wine hadn't aged well and was pretty much dead
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- the dead wastes of the far country to the west
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- barren,
- bony
- (also boney),
- desolate,
- hardscrabble,
- impoverished,
- infertile,
- poor,
- stark,
- unfertile,
- unproductive,
- waste
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dead
adverbSynonyms & Antonyms of dead (Entry 2 of 3)
- the finish line is dead ahead
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- I'm dead certain that's the one I want
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dead
nounSynonyms & Antonyms of dead (Entry 3 of 3)
- it's impossible to raise someone from the dead
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“Dead.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dead. Accessed 27 May. 2022.
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