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• “he stopped suddenly“

Synonyms

• abruptly quickly and without warning
• suddenly happening unexpectedly; quickly and without warning; on impulse
• short cheat someone by not returning him enough money ; create a short circuit in ; the location on a baseball field where the shortstop is stationed ; accidental contact between two points in an electric circuit that have a potential difference ; the fielding position of the player on a baseball team who is stationed between second and third base ; quickly and without warning; without possessing something at the time it is contractually sold; clean across; at some point or distance before a goal is reached; so as to interrupt; at a disadvantage; in a curt, abrupt and discourteous manner; primarily temporal sense; (primarily spatial sense) having little length or lacking in length; low in stature; of insufficient quantity to meet a need; (of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range; not holding securities or commodities that one sells in expectation of a fall in prices; of speech sounds or syllables of relatively short duration; less than the correct or legal or full amount often deliberately so; lacking foresight or scope; tending to crumble or break into flakes due to a large amount of shortening; marked by rude or peremptory shortness

• “used informally as intensifiers“
• “an absolutely magnificent painting“
• “a perfectly idiotic idea“
• “you’re perfectly right“
• “utterly miserable“
• “you can be dead sure of my innocence“
• “was dead tired“
• “dead right“

Synonyms

• absolutely completely and without qualification; totally and definitely
• perfectly completely and without qualification; in a perfect or faultless way
• utterly completely and without qualification

• “they buried the dead“

• “the dead of winter“

• “the nerve is dead“
• “a dead pallor“
• “he was marked as a dead man by the assassin“

• “no longer exerting force or having energy or heat“
• “Mars is a dead planet“
• “dead soil“
• “dead coals“
• “the fire is dead“

• “was all in at the end of the day“
• “so beat I could flop down and go to sleep anywhere“
• “bushed after all that exercise“
• “I’m dead after that long trip“

Synonyms

• all in(p)
• beat(p)
• bushed(p)
• dead(p)

• “a dead shot“
• “took dead aim“

• “Crater Lake is in the crater of a dead volcano of the Cascade Range“

• “unresponsive“
• “passersby were dead to our plea for help“
• “numb to the cries for mercy“

Synonyms

• dead(p)
• numb(p)

• “numb“
• “his gums were dead from the novocain“
• “she felt no discomfort as the dentist drilled her deadened tooth“
• “a public desensitized by continuous television coverage of atrocities“

Synonyms

• deadened devoid of physical sensation; made or become less intense

• “dead sounds characteristic of some compact discs“
• “the dead wall surfaces of a recording studio“

• “dead capital“
• “idle funds“

Synonyms

• idle the state of an engine or other mechanism that is idling; run disconnected or idle; be idle; not in action or at work; without a basis in reason or fact; not in active use; silly or trivial; lacking a sense of restraint or responsibility; not yielding a return; not having a job

• “dead air“
• “dead water“
• “stagnant water“

Synonyms

• dead(a)
• stagnant not circulating or flowing; not growing or changing

• “Latin is a dead language“

• “a dead tennis ball“

• “a dead telephone line“
• “the motor is dead“

• “a dead issue“

• “came to a dead stop“

Synonyms

• dead(a)

• “discharged“
• “a dead battery“
• “left the lights on and came back to find the battery drained“

Synonyms

• drained emptied or exhausted of (as by drawing off e.g. water or other liquid); very tired ; drained of electric charge

• “this is a dead town“
• “nothing ever happens here“