Are you trying to hyphenate dead? Unfortunately it cannot be hyphenated because it only contains one syllable.
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People who are no longer living They buried the dead |
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A time when coldness (or some other quality associated with death) is intense The dead of winter |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Unerringly accurate A dead shot Took dead aim |
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Physically inactive Crater Lake is in the crater of a dead volcano of the Cascade Range |
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(followed by `to') not showing human feeling or sensitivity Unresponsive Passersby were dead to our plea for help Numb to the cries for mercy |
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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 |
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Lacking acoustic resonance Dead sounds characteristic of some compact discs The dead wall surfaces of a recording studio |
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Not yielding a return Dead capital Idle funds |
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Not circulating or flowing Dead air Dead water Stagnant water |
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Not surviving in active use Latin is a dead language |
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Lacking resilience or bounce A dead tennis ball |
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Out of use or operation because of a fault or breakdown A dead telephone line The motor is dead |
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No longer having force or relevance A dead issue |
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Complete Came to a dead stop Utter seriousness |
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Drained of electric charge Discharged A dead battery Left the lights on and came back to find the battery drained |
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Devoid of activity This is a dead town Nothing ever happens here |
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Quickly and without warning He stopped suddenly |
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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 |
| adj | dead, asleep, at peace, at rest, deceased, departed, gone, assassinated, bloodless, exsanguine, exsanguinous, brain dead, breathless, inanimate, pulseless, cold, deathlike, deathly, defunct, d.o.a., doomed, executed, fallen, late, lifeless, exanimate, murdered, slain, stillborn, stone-dead, nonviable |
| adj | dead, barren, lifeless, out of play, extinct, out |
| adj | all in, beat, bushed, tired |
| adj | precise |
| adj | extinct, inactive |
| adj | utter, absolute |
| adj | inanimate, nonliving, nonconscious |
| adj | numb, insensitive |
| adj | deadened, insensitive |
| adj | unreverberant, nonresonant |
| adj | idle, unprofitable |
| adj | stagnant, standing |
| adj | malfunctioning, nonfunctional |
| adj | extinct, nonextant |
| adj | inelastic |
| adj | defunct, inoperative |
| adj | noncurrent |
| adj | complete |
| adj | drained, uncharged |
| adj | lifeless, unanimated |
| adj | inactive |
| noun | people |
| noun | time |
| adv | abruptly, suddenly, short |
| adv | absolutely, perfectly, utterly |