dead

I thought the whole business was dead and buried.

In two years, the British coal industry will be dead and buried.

Often a genius is recognized only after he is dead and gone.

I accepted finally that Mother was dead and gone.

Is he really dead?—dead as a doornail, old fellow.

The staff in that library are all dead from the neck up.

The talks are now dead in the water.

A `no' vote would have left the treaty dead in the water.

Horace was on the sofa, dead to the world and snoring loudly.

The poor woman was half dead with fright.

Let's invite her to dinner.—Over my dead body!

He dropped dead on his way to work one morning.

75% of the firms he called were hostile and told him to 'drop dead'.

Good morning, Simone, and may I say I've never seen you looking lovelier?— Drop dead!

The thugs beat him with baseball bats and left him for dead at the side of the road.

He put on a burst of speed and left the rest of the field for dead.

I wouldn't be seen dead in a straw hat.

I wouldn't be caught dead in such an old-fashioned place.

men who wouldn't be seen dead pushing a pram

He had a dead cigarette between his fingers.

The fire was dead.

Dead capital/funds

The line was dead.

On another occasion I answered the phone and the line went dead.

We sat in dead silence.

Lila's boat came to a dead stop.

The train had come to a dead halt.

`That is correct, Meg,' he answered in his cold, dead voice.

He remained dead to my most urgent pleas.

She seemed to be dead to the situation developing around her.

some dead little town where the liveliest thing is the flies

This made that holiday week a particularly dead period.

a dead pallor

The blood drained from his face, leaving the skin a dead white.

The ball is dead.

He was already dead when the doctor came.

He was pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital.

Dead matter

mountains of dead earth and stumps of trees

The water is dead: polluted and stagnant.

Then he heard a piercing scream echoing down the deep well, ending in a dull, dead thud.

a dead acoustic

The car won't start; the battery's dead.

If you screw up again, you're dead!

You're dead if your mother catches you at that.

Dead ground/zone/space

This bottle's dead. But we've got another one.

I feel pretty dead right now.

We were half dead after a journey of 15 miles on foot over rough terrain.

The deal with Chelsea may not be dead.

It's a dead issue, Baxter.

a dead language

trying to rub his dead fingers back to life

My leg has gone dead.

I don't know if it was a guess, but it was dead on.

You're dead right!

He was dead against the idea.

I am dead against the legalization of drugs.

We all stopped dead, terrified.

Passers-by stopped dead and gazed at the spectacle open-mouthed.

She had meant to make a discreet entrance, but conversation stopped dead.

She stopped him dead.

The sight of it stopped them dead.

That comment stopped the conversation dead, as indeed it was intended to.

A fishing boat came out of nowhere, dead ahead.

The train arrived dead on time.

Their arrows are dead on target.

Mars was dead in the centre of the telescope.

He adjusted each chesspiece so that it stood dead in the centre of its square.

The house is dead easy to get to.

His poems sound dead boring, actually.

He was dead tired, almost too tired to eat dinner.

I flew into the country in the dead of night.

We buried it in the garden at dead of night.

one Thursday morning in the dead of winter

This was a company that, by all appearances, had risen from the dead.