- dead
- {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} adj.VERBS▪ be, lie▪
His wife lay dead beside him.
▪ look▪ play▪The animal will sometimes escape danger by playing dead.
▪ drop, fall, fall down▪He just dropped dead one day at work.
▪ shoot sb, strike sb▪Gunmen shot dead two unarmed police officers.
▪She had been struck dead by lightning.
▪ find sb▪The woman was found dead with a rope around her neck.
▪ declare sb, pronounce sb▪She was declared dead on arrival at the hospital.
ADVERB▪ quite (esp. BrE)▪I'm afraid he's quite dead.
▪ almost, nearly▪ already▪By the time the police arrived, he was already dead.
PHRASES▪ dead and buried (figurative)▪In ten years he'll be dead and buried as a politician.
▪ dead and gone▪That won't happen until long after I'm dead and gone.
▪ dead or alive▪A reward was offered for his capture dead or alive.
▪ more dead than alive▪Poor child, she looks more dead than alive.
Dead is used with these nouns: ↑animal, ↑battery, ↑body, ↑branch, ↑brother, ↑calm, ↑cell, ↑centre, ↑corpse, ↑father, ↑flesh, ↑flower, ↑foliage, ↑halt, ↑heat, ↑husband, ↑language, ↑leaf, ↑man, ↑mother, ↑person, ↑sheep, ↑silence, ↑sister, ↑skin, ↑sleep, ↑snake, ↑soldier, ↑son, ↑soul, ↑standstill, ↑tree, ↑twig, ↑uncle, ↑weight, ↑white, ↑wife, ↑wood, ↑zone{{Roman}}II.{{/Roman}}adv.Dead is used with these adjectives: ↑boring, ↑calm, ↑even, ↑good, ↑lucky, ↑right, ↑scared, ↑set, ↑sexy, ↑silent, ↑spooky, ↑straight, ↑tired, ↑wrongDead is used with these verbs: ↑stop
Collocations dictionary. 2013.