Noun: dead
Sample Sentences
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Near-synonym: nadir
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the dead of night
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the dead of winter
Nouns inflected like dead
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English ded, deed, from Old English dēad, from Proto-West Germanic *daud, from Proto-Germanic *daudaz. Compare West Frisian dead, dea, Dutch dood, German tot, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål død, Norwegian Nynorsk daud, Swedish död. See: Dutch Nouns '
dood', Swedish Nouns '
död'.
Verbs referencing "dead"
English Nouns
deadcake, Dutch Nouns
doodslag.