Definitions of dead:

• noun:   people who are no longer living

  Example: "They buried the dead"

• noun:   a time when coldness (or some other quality associated with death) is intense

  Example: "The dead of winter"

• adjective:   unerringly accurate

  Example: "A dead shot"

• adjective:   not yielding a return

  Example: "Dead capital"

• adjective:   lacking acoustic resonance

  Example: "Dead sounds characteristic of some compact discs"

• adjective:   devoid of physical sensation; numb

  Example: "His gums were dead from the novocain"

• adjective:   devoid of activity

  Example: "This is a dead town"

• adjective:   physically inactive

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

• adjective:   no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life

  Example: "The nerve is dead"

• adjective:   not showing characteristics of life especially the capacity to sustain life; no longer exerting force or having energy or heat

  Example: "Mars is a dead planet"

• adjective:   lacking animation or excitement or activity

  Example: "The party being dead we left early"

• adjective:   drained of electric charge; discharged

  Example: "A dead battery"

• adjective:   no longer having force or relevance

  Example: "A dead issue"

• adjective:   no longer in force or use; inactive

  Example: "A defunct (or dead) law"

• adjective:   lacking resilience or bounce

  Example: "A dead tennis ball"

• adjective:   not surviving in active use

  Example: "Latin is a dead language"

• adjective:   out of use or operation because of a fault or breakdown

  Example: "A dead telephone line"

• adjective:   not endowed with life

  Example: "Dead stones"

• adverb:   completely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers

  Example: "You can be dead sure of my innocence"

• adverb:   quickly and without warning