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I’m absolutely dead! She was dead on her feet and didn’t have the energy to argue (=used when someone keeps going even though they are very tired ). 8 tired spoken TIRED very tired I can’t go out tonight.

7 no emotion FEEL HAPPY/FRIGHTENED/BORED ETC showing no emotion or sympathy Jennie’s eyes were cold and dead. 6 arm/leg etc FEEL HOT/COLD/TIRED ETC a part of your body that is dead has no feeling in it, especially because the blood supply to it has been stopped When I got up my foot had gone dead where I’d been sitting on it. 5 not active/used not active or being used The luxury car market has been dead in recent months. 3 already used already used a small pile of dead matches dead glass/bottle (=one that someone has finished drinking from in a bar or restaurant ) 4 boring BORING a place that is dead is boring because there is nothing interesting or exciting happening there This place is dead after nine o'clock. 2 not working TCT not working because there is no power I picked up the phone but discovered the line was dead. ► Do not confuse dead, which is an adjective, with died, which is the past tense and past participle of the verb die : The man was already dead (NOT The man was already died). When they found him he was more dead than alive. His fellow climbers had left him for dead on the mountain.

She was pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital. He suddenly had a heart attack and dropped dead. a pile of dead leaves the dead body of a young soldier Two men were shot dead by terrorists. Police are trying to contact the family of the dead man.