"the nerve is dead" "a dead pallor" "he was marked as a dead man by the assassin"

"they buried the dead"

"Mars is a dead planet" "a dead battery" "dead soil" "dead coals" "the fire is dead"

"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"

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

"dead silence" "utter seriousness"

"the dead of winter"

"a dead shot" "took dead aim"

"a dead telephone line" "the motor is dead"

"dead capital" "idle funds"

"the party being dead we left early" "it was a lifeless party until she arrived"

"dead sounds characteristic of some compact discs" "the dead wall surfaces of a recording studio"

"came to a dead stop"

"a dead battery" "left the lights on and came back to find the battery drained"

"the inorganic world is inanimate" "inanimate objects" "dead stones"

"dead air" "dead water" "stagnant water"

"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"

"a defunct (or dead) law" "a defunct organization"

"Latin is a dead language"

"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"

"passersby were dead to our plea for help" "numb to the cries for mercy"

"a dead tennis ball"

"a dead issue"

"he stopped suddenly"

"this is a dead town nothing ever happens here"