dead

1. dead (adj) — sense 1

Definition: No longer living; deceased. (Also used as a noun.)

Example: All of my grandparents are dead.

2. dead (adj) — sense 2

Definition: Devoid of living things; barren.

Example: a dead planet

3. dead (adj) — sense 3

Definition: Figuratively, not alive; lacking life.

Example: When a man's verses cannot be understood, nor a man's good wit seconded with the forward child, understanding, it strikes a man more dead than a great reckoning in a little room.

4. dead (adv) — sense 4

Definition: Exactly.

Example: dead right; dead level; dead flat; dead straight; dead left

5. dead (adv) — sense 5

Definition: 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

6. dead (adv) — sense 6

Definition: Suddenly and completely.

Example: He stopped dead.

7. dead (noun) — sense 7

Definition: Time when coldness, darkness, or stillness is most intense.

Example: Near-synonym: nadir

8. dead (noun) — sense 8

Definition: Those who have died: dead people.

Example: the quick and the dead

9. dead (noun) — sense 9

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

10. dead (verb) — sense 10

Definition: To prevent by disabling; to stop.

11. dead (verb) — sense 11

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

Example: Heaven's stern decree, / With many an ill, hath numb'd and deaded me.

12. dead (verb) — sense 12

Definition: To kill.

Example: I shoulda deaded it from genesis instead of hittin' the Guinnesses