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dead

1. mod. quiet and uneventful; boring. The day was totally dead.

2. mod. very tired. I went home from the office, dead as usual.

3. mod. dull; lifeless; flat. This meal is sort of dead because I am out of onions.

4. mod. no longer effective; no longer of any consequence. That guy is dead—out of power.

5. mod. [of an issue] no longer germane; no longer of any importance. Forget it! It’s a dead issue.

See:

• a dead duck
• a dead end
• a dead letter
• a dead ringer for
• a dead weight
• a live dog is better than a dead lion
• as dead as a doornail
• at a dead end
• bang dead to rights
• be (as) dead as a doornail
• be a dead cert
• be a dead loss
• be a dead ringer for
• be as dead as a dodo
• be as dead as a doornail
• be as good as dead
• be better off dead
• be brain dead
• be dead and buried
• be dead from the neck up
• be dead from the waist down
• be dead in the water
• be dead meat
• be dead on feet
• be dead on the vine
• be dead to the world
• be half-dead
• be the dead spit of
• beat a dead horse
• better dead than red
• brain-dead
• bring to a dead end
• catch dead to rights
• caught dead, wouldn't be
• come back from the dead
• come to a dead end
• cut dead
• cut someone dead
• dead
• dead ahead
• dead air
• dead and buried
• dead and gone
• dead as a dodo
• dead as a doornail
• dead asleep
• dead beat
• dead broke
• dead cat on the line
• dead center
• dead certain
• dead cinch
• dead drunk
• dead duck
• dead easy
• dead end
• dead from the neck up
• dead giveaway
• dead heat
• dead horse
• dead in one's tracks
• dead in or an animal's tracks
• dead in the water
• dead issue
• dead last
• dead letter
• dead loss
• dead man
• dead man walking
• Dead Man's Hand
• dead marine
• dead meat
• Dead men tell no tales
• dead men's shoes
• dead 'n' buried
• dead of
• dead of night
• dead of winter
• dead on
• dead on arrival
• dead on feet
• dead on one's feet
• dead on target
• dead one
• dead president
• dead ringer
• dead ringer for someone
• dead serious
• dead set against
• dead soldier
• dead tired
• dead to rights
• dead to the world
• dead weight
• dead wood
• dead wrong
• deadbeat dad
• dead-catty
• deaded
• dead-end kid
• dead-stick landing
• dead-tree edition
• dead-tree format
• dead-tree press
• drop dead
• Drop dead!
• drop-dead
• drop-dead date
• drop-dead gorgeous
• drop-dead list
• faint dead away
• flog a dead horse
• from my cold, dead hands
• give up for dead
• have dead to rights
• have someone dead to rights
• in a dead heat
• in earnest
• in the dead of night
• It's ill waiting for dead men's shoes
• knock dead
• knock someone dead
• knock them/'em dead
• leave for dead
• Let the dead bury the dead
• mean enough to steal a penny off a dead man's eyes
• more dead than alive
• Never speak ill of the dead
• on dead center
• over my dead body
• Over my dead body!
• play dead
• Queen Anne is dead
• quick and the dead
• raise from the dead
• rise from the dead
• roll over and play dead
• silent as the dead
• step into dead men's shoes
• stone dead
• stop (someone) dead
• stop cold
• stop dead
• stop dead in tracks
• stop one dead in tracks
• take for dead
• taken for dead
• the dead hand of
• to wake the dead, loud enough
• wait for dead men's shoes
• wake the dead
• would not be caught dead
• would not be seen dead
• wouldn't be caught dead