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n. a time when coldness (or some other quality associated with death) is intense; "the dead of winter"

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adv. quickly and without warning; "he stopped suddenly"

adj. devoid of activity; "this is a dead town; nothing ever happens here"

adj. no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life; "the nerve is dead"; "a dead pallor"; "he was marked as a dead man by the assassin"

dead

adj. physically inactive; "Crater Lake is in the crater of a dead volcano of the Cascade Range"

dead

adj. not surviving in active use; "Latin is a dead language"

dead

adj. unerringly accurate; "a dead shot"; "took dead aim"

dead

adj. lacking acoustic resonance; "dead sounds characteristic of some compact discs"; "the dead wall surfaces of a recording studio"

lifeless

adj. lacking animation or excitement or activity; "the party being dead we left early"; "it was a lifeless party until she arrived"

down, out of service, crashed

adj. being put out by a strikeout; "two down in the bottom of the ninth"

victim

n. an unfortunate person who suffers from some adverse circumstance

fatality

n. the quality of being able to cause death or fatal disasters

promptly, quickly, quick

adv. with little or no delay; "the rescue squad arrived promptly"; "come here, quick!"

dormant, inactive

adj. (of e.g. volcanos) not erupting and not extinct ; "a dormant volcano"

cold

adj. lacking the warmth of life; "cold in his grave"

dropped

adj. (used of a mammal) born

fallen

adj.

slain

adj. killed; `slain' is formal or literary as in "slain warriors"; "a picture of St. George and the slain dragon"

crooked, corrupt

adj. not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive

adulterate, adulterated, debased

adj. mixed with impurities

immoral

adj. deliberately violating accepted principles of right and wrong

iniquitous, sinful, ungodly

adj. characterized by iniquity; wicked because it is believed to be a sin; "iniquitous deeds"; "he said it was sinful to wear lipstick"; "ungodly acts"

accurate

adj. conforming exactly or almost exactly to fact or to a standard or performing with total accuracy; "an accurate reproduction"; "the accounting was accurate"; "accurate measurements"; "an accurate scale"

fine

adj. minutely precise especially in differences in meaning; "a fine distinction"

finespun, hairsplitting

adj. developed in excessively fine detail; "finespun distinctions"

nice, skillful

adj. done with delicacy and skill; "a nice bit of craft"; "a job requiring nice measurements with a micrometer"; "a nice shot"

pinpoint

adj. meticulously precise; "pinpoint accuracy"

very(a)

adj. precisely as stated; "the very center of town"

nonresonant

adj. not reverberant; lacking a tendency to reverberate

asphyxiating

adj. tending to deprive of oxygen; "asphyxiating gasses"

smothering, suffocating, suffocative

adj. causing difficulty in breathing especially through lack of fresh air and presence of heat; "the choking June dust"; "the smothering soft voices"; "smothering heat"; "the room was suffocating--hot and airless"

blown, pursy, short-winded, winded

adj. breathing laboriously or convulsively

bad, defective

adj. not working properly; "a bad telephone connection"; "a defective appliance"

living

n. people who are still living; "save your pity for the living"

live

adj. of current relevance; "a live issue"; "still a live option"

hot, live

adj. charged or energized with electricity; "a hot wire"; "a live wire"

alive(p), live

adj. possessing life; "the happiest person alive"; "the nerve is alive"; "doctors are working hard to keep him alive"; "burned alive"; "a live canary"

animate, alive

adj. having life or vigor or spirit; "an animated and expressive face"; "animated conversation"; "became very animated when he heard the good news"

vital

adj. full of spirit; "a dynamic full of life woman"; "a vital and charismatic leader"; "this whole lively world"

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