dead
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Base Score
1
Before any board-specific bonus
Unique Letters
3
A D E
Two-Letter Start
DE
Useful for systematic scans
Ending
AD
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- 4 letters
- 3 unique letters
- DE start
- AD ending
- repeated letters
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- dead is a four-letter word, so it is worth 1 point when accepted.
- It uses 3 unique letters, so it can fit boards that include a, d, e plus any remaining hive letters.
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Pronunciation
noun
(with "the", a demonstrative, or a possessive) Those who have died.
"Have respect for the dead."
noun
(often with "the") Time when coldness, darkness, or stillness is most intense.
"The dead of night. The dead of winter."
noun
(usually plural) Sterile mining waste, often present as many large rocks stacked inside the workings.
verb
To prevent by disabling; stop.
verb
To make dead; to deaden; to deprive of life, force, or vigour.
verb
To kill.
adjective
No longer living.
"All of my grandparents are dead."
adjective
Figuratively, not alive; lacking life.
adjective
(of another person) So hated that they are absolutely ignored.
"He is dead to me."
adjective
Doomed; marked for death (literally or as a hyperbole).
""You come back here this instant! Oh, you're dead, mister!""
adjective
Without emotion.
"She stood with dead face and limp arms, unresponsive to my plea."
adjective
Stationary; static.
"a dead lift"
adjective
Without interest to one of the senses; dull; flat.
"a dead glass of soda."
adjective
Unproductive.
"dead fields"
adjective
(of a machine, device, or electrical circuit) Completely inactive; currently without power; without a signal.
"Now that the motor's dead you can reach in and extract the spark plugs."
adjective
(of a battery) Unable to emit power, being discharged (flat) or faulty.
adjective
Broken or inoperable.
"That monitor is dead; don’t bother hooking it up."
adjective
No longer used or required.
"Is this beer glass dead?"
adjective
Not imparting motion or power by design.
"A dead axle, also called a lazy axle, is not part of the drivetrain, but is instead free-rotating."
adjective
Not in play.
"Once the ball crosses the foul line, it's dead."
adjective
(of a golf ball) Lying so near the hole that the player is certain to hole it in the next stroke.
adjective
(1800s) Tagged out.
adjective
Full and complete.
"dead giveaway"
adjective
Exact.
"a dead eye"
adjective
Experiencing pins and needles (paresthesia).
"After sitting on my hands for a while, my arms became dead."
adjective
Constructed so as not to transmit sound; soundless.
"a dead floor"
adjective
Bringing death; deadly.
adjective
Cut off from the rights of a citizen; deprived of the power of enjoying the rights of property.
"A person who is banished or who becomes a monk is civilly dead."
adjective
(often with "to") Indifferent to, no longer subject to or ruled by (sin, guilt, pleasure, etc).
adverb
(degree) Exactly.
"He hit the target dead in the centre."
adverb
(degree) Very, absolutely, extremely.
"dead wrong; dead set; dead serious; dead drunk; dead broke; dead earnest; dead certain; dead slow; dead sure; dead simple; dead honest; dead accurate; dead easy; dead scared; dead solid; dead black; dead white; dead empty"
adverb
Suddenly and completely.
"He stopped dead."
adverb
As if dead.
"dead tired; dead quiet; dead asleep; dead pale; dead cold; dead still"