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Pronounce Dead as D EH AH D.

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    Dead phonetic transcription:

    When you start learning English, it's important to become familiar with the typical sounds of the language. The best way to do this is by studying phonetics. Below is the UK transcription for the word 'dead'. Get the right phonetic representation for any word using our free Phonetic Transcription Tool.

    • Traditional IPA representation of dead: /dɛæd/
    • Modern IPA representation of dead: /dɛæd/

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    List of meaning for dead

    no longer living

    dead(noun)

    people who are no longer living

    "they buried the dead"

    dead(adj)

    a time when coldness (or some other quality associated with death) is intense

    "the dead of winter"

    dead(adj)

    no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life

    "the nerve is dead"; "a dead pallor"; "he was marked as a dead man by the assassin"

    dead(adj)

    not showing characteristics of life especially the capacity to sustain life; no longer exerting force or having energy or heat

    "Mars is a dead planet"; "dead soil"; "dead coals"; "the fire is dead"

    all in(p), beat(p), bushed(p), dead(p)(adj)

    very tired

    "was all in at the end of the day"; "so beat I could flop down and go to sleep anywhere"; "bushed after all that exercise"; "I'm dead after that long trip"

    dead(adj)

    unerringly accurate

    "a dead shot"; "took dead aim"

    dead(adj)

    physically inactive

    "Crater Lake is in the crater of a dead volcano of the Cascade Range"

    dead(p), numb(p)(adj)

    (followed by `to') not showing human feeling or sensitivity; unresponsive

    "passersby were dead to our plea for help"; "numb to the cries for mercy"

    dead, deadened(adj)

    devoid of physical sensation; numb

    "his gums were dead from the novocain"; "she felt no discomfort as the dentist drilled her deadened tooth"; "a public desensitized by continuous television coverage of atrocities"

    dead(adj)

    lacking acoustic resonance

    "dead sounds characteristic of some compact discs"; "the dead wall surfaces of a recording studio"

    dead, idle(adj)

    not yielding a return

    "dead capital"; "idle funds"

    dead(a), stagnant(adj)

    not circulating or flowing

    "dead air"; "dead water"; "stagnant water"

    dead(adj)

    not surviving in active use

    "Latin is a dead language"

    dead(adj)

    lacking resilience or bounce

    "a dead tennis ball"

    dead(adj)

    out of use or operation because of a fault or breakdown

    "a dead telephone line"; "the motor is dead"

    dead(adj)

    no longer having force or relevance

    "a dead issue"

    dead(a), utter(adj)

    complete

    "came to a dead stop"; "utter seriousness"

    dead, drained(adj)

    drained of electric charge; discharged

    "a dead battery"; "left the lights on and came back to find the battery drained"

    dead(adverb)

    devoid of activity

    "this is a dead town; nothing ever happens here"

    abruptly, suddenly, short, dead(adverb)

    quickly and without warning

    "he stopped suddenly"

    absolutely, perfectly, utterly, dead(adverb)

    completely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers

    "an absolutely magnificent painting"; "a perfectly idiotic idea"; "you're perfectly right"; "utterly miserable"; "you can be dead sure of my innocence"; "was dead tired"; "dead right"

    no longer living

    I inherited this heirloom from my dead great-grandfather

    lacking in gaiety, movement, or animation

    the store is often dead after 4:00 p.m.

    depleted in strength, energy, or freshness

    a long day of traveling left them just dead

    having no exceptions or restrictions

    there was a dead silence following that incredibly moving performance

    lacking in sensation or feeling

    my foot was dead after I absentmindedly sat on it for an hour

    no longer existing

    the dead Babylonian culture

    not being in a state of use, activity, or employment

    local coal mines that have been dead for years

    of, relating to, or suggestive of death

    fell into a dead faint upon hearing the news

    facing certain defeat, disaster, or death

    if we don't finish this project on time, we're dead

    lacking in taste or flavor

    from the first sip I could tell that the wine hadn't aged well and was pretty much dead

    producing inferior or only a small amount of vegetation

    the dead wastes of the far country to the west

    in a direct line or course

    the finish line is dead ahead

    to a full extent or degree

    I'm dead certain that's the one I want

    the state of being dead

    it's impossible to raise someone from the dead

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    dead in sentence

    1. Shot once in the head, the murder victim lay dead in the street for several hours.

    2. The teacher explained the tautology in the “the dead corpse” by reminding students that a corpse is already dead.

    3. If an unpleasant odor starts to permeate your home, you might have a dead rat in your walls.

    4. Jack’s voice started to quiver when he talked about his dead wife.

    5. Karen was morbidly fascinated with dead bodies and often fantasized about seeing one up close.

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    Quotes and sayings containing the term dead

    When your dream dies, create another dream; don’t waste your time to resurrect the dead one! Remember that you are mortal and don’t stuck on one dream! Give other dreams a chance! Be just! Remember, you are mortal and your time is very short!

    – Mehmet Murat ildan

    Hares can gamble over the body of a dead lion.

    – Publilius Syrus

    Government were asking where we were hiding Renamo, when they couldn't find them they were burning houses and shooting. I saw five dead bodies and a woman was raped in front of me.

    – Agness Chifundo

    When you look at the news, you read about childhood obesity and how people come to dead ends when figuring a way to solve the problem. You read about ways people try to improve learning outcomes for students and that is the reason we felt we needed to get involved in this area.

    – Ergotron CEO Pete Segar

    This says that the Surface might be dead and Microsoft understands that they are very good at productivity but not at hardware.

    – Dave Meier

    The center of the city is normal, the city smells so bad with dead bodies still on the pavements and in the sewage. The local government must do something.

    – Abdul Ghafoor

    You shouldn't always look somewhere else for reasons for what you're going through at home. We are tackling head on what is happening in some of our boroughs, when you have 130 dead in one city, it means something's gone wrong. It's a mistake, I think, to infer from that that what went wrong went wrong only abroad.

    – Foreign Minister Reynders

    The skylines lit up at dead of night, the air-conditioning systems cooling empty hotels in the desert, and artificial light in the middle of the day all have something both demented and admirable about them the mindless luxury of a rich civilization, and yet of a civilization perhaps as scared to see the lights go out as was the hunter in his primitive night.

    – Jean Baudrillard

    I don't believe it's dead at all, we'd like to keep the project going and we're also in discussion with other potential partners to replace Schlumberger on the project ... We believe in the project.

    – Iain Ross

    We had gang warfare on the streets. We had little children being shot dead on the streets who were just innocent bystanders standing in the wrong place.

    – President Barack Obama

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