Scrabble and Words with Friends

• DEAD is a valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. Scrabble uses the TWL word list.
  

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• DEAD is a valid Words with Friends word worth 6 points. Words with Friends uses the ENABLE word list.
  

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• DEAD is a 4 letter word containing the letters a, d, d, e.

Definitions

• dead

  noun people who are no longer living
  they buried the dead

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• dead

  noun a time when coldness (or some other quality associated with death) is intense
  the dead of winter

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• dead

  adjective 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

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• dead

  adjective not showing characteristics of life especially the capacity to sustain life; no longer exerting force or having energy or heat
  Mars is a dead planet
  dead soil
  dead coals
  the fire is dead

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• dead

  adverb quickly and without warning

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• dead

  adverb completely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers
  you can be dead sure of my innocence
  was dead tired
  dead right

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• dead

  adjective satellite very tired
  I'm dead after that long trip

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• dead

  adjective satellite unerringly accurate
  a dead shot
  took dead aim

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• dead

  adjective satellite physically inactive
  Crater Lake is in the crater of a dead volcano of the Cascade Range

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• dead

  adjective satellite (followed by `to') not showing human feeling or sensitivity; unresponsive
  passersby were dead to our plea for help

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• dead

  adjective satellite devoid of physical sensation; numb
  his gums were dead from the novocain
  she felt no discomfort as the dentist drilled her deadened tooth

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• dead

  adjective satellite lacking acoustic resonance
  dead sounds characteristic of some compact discs
  the dead wall surfaces of a recording studio

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• dead

  adjective satellite not yielding a return
  dead capital

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• dead

  adjective satellite not circulating or flowing
  dead air
  dead water

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• dead

  adjective satellite not surviving in active use
  Latin is a dead language

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• dead

  adjective satellite lacking resilience or bounce
  a dead tennis ball

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• dead

  adjective satellite out of use or operation because of a fault or breakdown
  a dead telephone line
  the motor is dead

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• dead

  adjective satellite no longer having force or relevance
  a dead issue

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• dead

  adjective satellite the complete stoppage of an action
  came to a dead stop

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• dead

  adjective satellite drained of electric charge; discharged
  a dead battery

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• dead

  adjective satellite devoid of activity
  this is a dead town; nothing ever happens here

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• Lookup DEAD using the Merriam-Webster dictionary

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