Dead
Portuguese Meaning
morto sem vida sem energia mortal parado fatal intenso irreconciliável implacável morto escuridão silêncio mortalmente excessivamente implacavelmente
English Meaning
- Having lost life; no longer alive.
- Marked for certain death; doomed: was marked as a dead man by the assassin.
- Having the physical appearance of death: a dead pallor.
- Lacking feeling or sensitivity; numb or unresponsive: Passersby were dead to our pleas for help.
- Weary and worn-out; exhausted.
- Not having the capacity to live; inanimate or inert.
- Not having the capacity to produce or sustain life; barren: dead soil.
- No longer in existence, use, or operation.
- No longer having significance or relevance.
- Physically inactive; dormant: a dead volcano.
- Not commercially productive; idle: dead capital.
- Not circulating or running; stagnant: dead water; dead air.
- Devoid of human or vehicular activity; quiet: a dead town.
- Lacking all animation, excitement, or activity; dull: The party being dead, we left early.
- Having no resonance. Used of sounds: "One characteristic of compact discs we all can hear is dead sound. It may be pure but it has no life” ( Musical Heritage Review).
- Having grown cold; having been extinguished: dead coals; a dead flame.
- Lacking elasticity or bounce: That tennis ball is dead.
- Out of operation because of a fault or breakdown: The motor is dead.
- Sudden; abrupt: a dead stop.
- Complete; utter: dead silence.
- Exact; unerring. the dead center of a target.
- Sports Out of play. Used of a ball.
- Lacking connection to a source of electric current.
- Drained of electric charge; discharged: a dead battery.
- One who has died: respect for the dead.
- The period exhibiting the greatest degree of intensity: the dead of winter; the dead of night.
- Absolutely; altogether: You can be dead sure of my innocence.
- Directly; exactly: There's a gas station dead ahead.
- Suddenly: She stopped dead on the stairway.
- dead and buried No longer in use or under consideration: All past animosities are dead and buried now.
- dead in the water Unable to function or move: The crippled ship was dead in the water. With no leadership, the project was dead in the water.
- dead to rights In the very act of making an error or committing a crime: The police caught the thief dead to rights with my silverware.