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mortmain: real property held inalienably (as by an ecclesiastical corporation) the oppressive influence of past events of decisions
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no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life; "the nerve is dead"; "a dead pallor"; "he was marked as a dead man by the assassin" 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"; "a dead battery"; "dead soil"; "dead coals"; "the fire is dead" all in(p): very tired; "was all in at the end of the day"; "so beat I could flop down and go to sleep anywhere"; "bushed after all that exercise"; "I'm dead after that long trip" unerringly accurate; "a dead shot"; "took dead aim" physically inactive; "Crater Lake is in the crater of a dead volcano of the Cascade Range" dead(a): total; "dead silence"; "utter seriousness" inanimate: not endowed with life; "the inorganic world is inanimate"; "inanimate objects"; "dead stones" dead(p): (followed by `to') not showing human feeling or sensitivity; unresponsive; "passersby were dead to our plea for help"; "numb to the cries for mercy" devoid of physical sensation; numb; "his gums were dead from the novocain"; "she felt no discomfort as the dentist drilled her deadened tooth"; "a public desensitized by continuous television coverage of atrocities" lacking acoustic resonance; "dead sounds characteristic of some compact discs"; "the dead wall surfaces of a recording studio" not yielding a return; "dead capital"; "idle funds" dead(a): not circulating or flowing; "dead air"; "dead water"; "stagnant water" out of use or operation because of a fault or breakdown; "a dead telephone line"; "the motor is dead" not surviving in active use; "Latin is a dead language" lacking resilience or bounce; "a dead tennis ball" no longer in force or use; inactive; "a defunct (or dead) law"; "a defunct organization" no longer having force or relevance; "a dead issue" dead(a): sudden and complete; "came to a dead stop" drained of electric charge; discharged; "a dead battery"; "left the lights on and came back to find the battery drained" people who are no longer living; "they buried the dead" lacking animation or excitement or activity; "the party being dead we left early"; "it was a lifeless party until she arrived" abruptly: quickly and without warning; "he stopped suddenly" a time when coldness (or some other quality associated with death) is intense; "the dead of winter" devoid of activity; "this is a dead town; nothing ever happens here" absolutely: completely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers; "an absolutely magnificent painting"; "a perfectly idiotic idea"; "you're perfectly right"; "utterly miserable"; "you can be dead sure of my innocence"; "was dead tired"; "dead right"
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| deadly nightshade |
belladonna: perennial Eurasian herb with reddish bell-shaped flowers and shining black berries; extensively grown in United States; roots and leaves yield atropine bittersweet: poisonous perennial Old World vine having violet flowers and oval coral-red berries; widespread weed in North America
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| dead |
Out of play. Said of a ball.
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| dead time |
Dead time is the time on a job lost by a worker without his fault.
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