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  1. adjective Having lost life; no longer alive.
  2. adjective Marked for certain death; doomed: was marked as a dead man by the assassin.
  3. adjective Having the physical appearance of death: a dead pallor.

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  • Can anything be more monstrous than that the dead should be allowed to poison the living? —  The Nebuly Coat
  • The contempt it shows for the memory of the dead is appalling; the credulity and ignorance it displays are inconceivable Miss Addams does not know that even from France they have banished absinthe. —  New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 5, August, 1915
  • The use of Prayers for the dead was a Catholic doctrine,--not condemned in the Articles; 2. —  Apologia Pro Vita Sua
  • Only the dead were here, watched by the great birds, the treetops and the dawn. —  The Long Roll
  • Winder is dead, and the courier who could have told is dead, and others whom I might have called are dead--dead, I will avow, because of my choice of action, though still--given that false order--I justify that choice! —  The Long Roll
 

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  1. Middle English ded, from Old English dēad; see dheu-2 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Early modern English also ded; from Middle English ded, deed, dead, dyad, from Anglo-Saxon deád = Old Saxon dōd = OFries. dād, dāth = Middle Dutch, Dutch dood = Middle Low German dōt, dōd, Low German dod = Old High German Middle High German tōt, German tot, todt = Danish död = Swedish död = Icelandic daudhr = Gothic (Moesogothic) dauths, dead; orig. a past participle (with suffix -d, -th, etc.: see -ed and -d) of the strong verb represented by Gothic (Moesogothic) *diwan (preterit *dau, past participle diwans) = Icelandic deyja (preterit , past participle dāinn), die: see die. Dead is thus nearly equivalent to died, past participle of die. Cf. death.
  2. from Middle English deden, from Anglo-Saxon dy¯dan, also in comp. ādy¯dan, kill (cf. ādeádian, become dead, mortify) (= Dutch dooden = Middle Low German doden = Old High German toden, Middle High German töten, German töten, tödten = Danish döde = Swedish döda = Gothic (Moesogothic) dauthjan, kill), from deád, dead: see dead, adjective Cf. deaden.
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