lamier

Phonetic: "/diːd/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: (with "the", a demonstrative, or a possessive) Those who have died.

Example: Have respect for the dead.

Phonetic: "/diːd/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: (often with "the") Time when coldness, darkness, or stillness is most intense.

Example: The dead of night. The dead of winter.

Phonetic: "/diːd/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: (usually plural) Sterile mining waste, often present as many large rocks stacked inside the workings.

Phonetic: "/diːd/"

Part Of Speech: verb

Definition: To prevent by disabling; stop.

Definition: To make dead; to deaden; to deprive of life, force, or vigour.

Definition: To kill.

Phonetic: "/diːd/"

Part Of Speech: adjective

Definition: No longer living.

Example: All of my grandparents are dead.

Definition: Figuratively, not alive; lacking life.

Definition: (of another person) So hated that they are absolutely ignored.

Example: He is dead to me.

Definition: Doomed; marked for death (literally or as a hyperbole).

Example: "You come back here this instant! Oh, you're dead, mister!"

Definition: Without emotion.

Example: She stood with dead face and limp arms, unresponsive to my plea.

Definition: Stationary; static.

Example: a dead lift

Definition: Without interest to one of the senses; dull; flat.

Example: a dead glass of soda.

Definition: Unproductive.

Example: dead fields

Definition: (of a machine, device, or electrical circuit) Completely inactive; currently without power; without a signal.

Example: Now that the motor's dead you can reach in and extract the spark plugs.

Definition: (of a battery) Unable to emit power, being discharged (flat) or faulty.

Definition: Broken or inoperable.

Example: That monitor is dead; don’t bother hooking it up.

Definition: No longer used or required.

Example: Is this beer glass dead?

Definition: Not imparting motion or power by design.

Example: A dead axle, also called a lazy axle, is not part of the drivetrain, but is instead free-rotating.

Definition: Not in play.

Example: Once the ball crosses the foul line, it's dead.

Definition: (of a golf ball) Lying so near the hole that the player is certain to hole it in the next stroke.

Definition: (1800s) Tagged out.

Definition: Full and complete.

Example: dead giveaway

Definition: Exact.

Example: a dead eye

Definition: Experiencing pins and needles (paresthesia).

Example: After sitting on my hands for a while, my arms became dead.

Definition: Constructed so as not to transmit sound; soundless.

Example: a dead floor

Definition: Bringing death; deadly.

Definition: Cut off from the rights of a citizen; deprived of the power of enjoying the rights of property.

Example: A person who is banished or who becomes a monk is civilly dead.

Definition: (often with "to") Indifferent to, no longer subject to or ruled by (sin, guilt, pleasure, etc).

Phonetic: "/diːd/"

Part Of Speech: adverb

Definition: (degree) Exactly.

Example: He hit the target dead in the centre.

Definition: (degree) Very, absolutely, extremely.

Example: dead wrong; dead set; dead serious; dead drunk; dead broke; dead earnest; dead certain; dead slow; dead sure; dead simple; dead honest; dead accurate; dead easy; dead scared; dead solid; dead black; dead white; dead empty

Definition: Suddenly and completely.

Example: He stopped dead.

Definition: As if dead.

Example: dead tired; dead quiet; dead asleep; dead pale; dead cold; dead still

Phonetic: "/ˈnɛt(ə)l/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: Any plant whose foliage is covered with stinging, mildly poisonous hairs, causing an instant rash.

Definition: Certain plants that have spines or prickles:

Definition: Certain non-stinging plants, mostly in the family Lamiaceae, that resemble the species of Urtica:

Definition: Loosely, anything which causes a similarly stinging rash, such as a jellyfish or sea nettle.

Phonetic: "/ˈnɛt(ə)l/"

Part Of Speech: verb

Definition: Of the nettle plant and similar physical causes, to sting, causing a rash in someone.

Example: The children were badly nettled after playing in the field.

Definition: To pique, irritate, vex or provoke.