| 单词 | deadness |
| 释义 | deaddead1 /dɛd/ ●●● S1 W1 adjective 1NOT ALIVE not alive anymore OPP alive: Her mother has been dead for ten years. a dead tree A dead body (=a dead person) was found in the park. He was found dead in his jail cell. The earthquake left thousands of people dead (=caused their deaths). She had been attacked and left for dead (=left alone to die). The men are still missing and presumed dead (=used in news reports to say that someone is believed to be dead). I’ll be dead and gone (=dead for a long time) by the time you’re 50.2NOT WORKING not working because there is no electrical power: Is the battery dead? The phones went dead during the storm.3BORING a place, period of time, or situation that is dead does not have anything interesting happening in it: The bar is usually dead on weekdays.4NOT ACTIVE/USED not active or being used: The luxury car market has been dead in recent months.5TIRED spoken very tired SYN beat: I can’t go out tonight. I’m dead. The next morning I was half dead (=so tired you do not feel well). Most of the soldiers were dead on their feet.6ARM/LEG ETC. a part of your body that is dead has no feeling in it for a short time: Her fingers had gone dead in the cold.7COMPLETE complete or total: The car came to a dead stop (=it stopped completely). There was dead silence (=complete silence) in the room. The arrow hit the dead center of the target (=the exact center). He fell to the floor in a dead faint (=completely unconscious).8be dead set on/against something to be determined that something will or will not happen: Key White House aides are dead set against the proposal.9somebody wouldn’t be caught/seen dead spoken said in order to emphasize that someone would never do something because it would be too embarrassing: somebody wouldn’t be caught/seen dead doing something Melanie wouldn’t be seen dead wearing a dress like that!dead with/at/in I wouldn’t be caught dead at one of Val’s parties.10LAND/WATER/PLANETS containing no life: a dead moon of Jupiter the Dead Sea11IN SPORTS when the ball is dead in some games, players must stop playing until the officials start the game again12NO EMOTION dead eyes or a dead voice show no emotion SYN lifeless13dead on arrival a)someone who is dead on arrival is declared to be dead as soon as he or she is brought to a hospital b)a law, plan, etc. that is dead on arrival is not worth considering even when it is first shown to the public: The budget was dead on arrival in Congress.14over my dead body spoken used to say that you are determined not to allow something to happen: You’ll marry him over my dead body!15you’re dead (meat)! spoken used to threaten someone with punishment or violence: If anything happens to the car, you’re dead!16dead as a doornail spoken a)used to say that someone or something is clearly dead: The rat was dead as a doornail. b)used to say that there is no activity in a place17beat/flog a dead horse spoken to waste time or effort by trying to do something that is impossible or talking about something that has already been decided18a dead language a dead language is not used by ordinary people anymore SYN living19a dead ringer someone who looks exactly like someone else: Dave’s a dead ringer for Nicolas Cage.20dead to the world very deeply asleep or unconscious21dead and buried an argument, problem, plan, etc. that is dead and buried is not in use anymore, or is not worth considering anymore: I thought the idea of us moving to New York was dead and buried.22dead in the water a plan or idea that is dead in the water has failed and cannot possibly succeed in the future23a dead duck informal a)someone who is in trouble or will be punished: If he’s not here on time, he’s a dead duck. b)something that is very likely to fail or become less successful: The news program was once considered a dead duck.24the dead hand of something a powerful bad influence that makes progress slower: the dead hand of bureaucracy—deadness noun [uncountable] → see also drop dead at drop1 (15)WORD CHOICE: dead, died• Dead is an adjective. Use dead to describe people or things that are no longer alive: I think this plant is dead.• Died is the past tense and past participle of the verb “die.” Use died to talk about becoming dead: He died on the way to the hospital. I think this plant has died. |
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