dead

　　1.people who are no longer living;

　　they buried the dead

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

　　the dead of winter

　　3.no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life;

　　the nerve is dead

　　4.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

　　5.very tired;

　　was all in at the end of the day

　　6.unerringly accurate;

　　a dead shot

　　7.physically inactive;

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

　　8.total;

　　dead silence

　　9.not endowed with life;

　　the inorganic world is inanimate

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

　　passersby were dead to our plea for help

　　11.devoid of physical sensation; numb;

　　his gums were dead from the novocain

　　12. lacking acoustic resonance;

　　dead sounds characteristic of some compact discs

　　13. not yielding a return;

　　dead capital

　　14. not circulating or flowing;

　　dead air

　　15. out of use or operation because of a fault or breakdown;

　　a dead telephone line

　　16. not surviving in active use;

　　Latin is a dead language

　　17. lacking resilience or bounce;

　　a dead tennis ball

　　18. no longer in force or use; inactive;

　　a defunct (or dead) law

　　19. no longer having force or relevance;

　　a dead issue

　　20. sudden and complete;

　　came to a dead stop

　　21. drained of electric charge; discharged;

　　a dead battery

　　22. lacking animation or excitement or activity;

　　the party being dead we left early

　　23. devoid of activity;

　　this is a dead town; nothing ever happens here

　　24.quickly and without warning;

　　he stopped suddenly

　　25.completely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers;

　　an absolutely magnificent painting