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dead

 
 
/ded/ adjective

Translation

NOT ALIVE not now alive
ölü, ölmüş, cansız
She's been dead for 20 years now. He was shot dead by a masked intruder. There were three children among the dead.456
EQUIPMENT If a piece of equipment is dead, it is not working.
işe yaramaz, bitmiş
a dead battery The phone suddenly went dead.2503
QUIET informal If a place is dead, it is too quiet and nothing interesting is happening there.
(yer, mekân) hareketsiz, cansız, sessiz, durgun, ölü
1070
COMPLETE [always before noun] complete
büsbütün, tam
We waited in dead silence as the votes were counted.1922
BODY mainly UK If part of your body is dead, you cannot feel it.
hissiz, uyuşmuş (vücudun bir bölümü)
My arm's gone dead.1078
wouldn't be caught/seen dead informal If someone wouldn't be caught dead in a place or doing something, they would never go there or do it, usually because it would be too embarrassing.
bir şeyi çok utanç vereceğini düşünerek yapmamak veya oraya gitmemek ('ölürümde yapmam!' manasında)
[+ doing sth] I wouldn't be caught dead wearing a bikini.1184
drop dead informal to die very suddenly
ansızın ölmek, hayatını kaybetmek, göçüp gitmek
456
(Definition of dead adjective from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary English-Turkish © Cambridge University Press)

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