Definition of "Dead" :

noun: people who are no longer living

"They buried the dead."

noun: a time when coldness (or some other quality associated with death) is intense

"The dead of winter."

adjective: devoid of activity

"This is a dead town; nothing ever happens here."

adjective: physically inactive

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

adjective: no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life

"The nerve is dead."

adjective: 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."

adjective: drained of electric charge; discharged

"A dead battery."

adjective: the complete stoppage of an action

"Came to a dead stop."

adjective: no longer having force or relevance

"A dead issue."

adjective: out of use or operation because of a fault or breakdown

"A dead telephone line."

adjective: lacking resilience or bounce

"A dead tennis ball."

adjective: not surviving in active use

"Latin is a dead language."

adjective: not circulating or flowing

"Dead air."

adjective: unerringly accurate

"A dead shot."

adjective: not yielding a return

"Dead capital."

adjective: lacking acoustic resonance

"Dead sounds characteristic of some compact discs."

adjective: devoid of physical sensation; numb

"His gums were dead from the novocain."

adjective: (followed by to') not showing human feeling or sensitivity; unresponsive

"Passersby were dead to our plea for help."

adjective: very tired

"I'm dead after that long trip."

adverb: completely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers

"You can be dead sure of my innocence."

adverb: quickly and without warning