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Original entry ↗noun
(usually in the plural) Sterile mining waste, often present as many large rocks stacked inside the workings. · Clipping of deadlift.
verb
To prevent by disabling; to stop. · To make dead; to deaden; to deprive of life, force, or vigour. · To kill. · To discontinue or put an end to (something).
adv
Exactly. · Very, absolutely, extremely. · Suddenly and completely. · As if dead.
noun
Time when coldness, darkness, or stillness is most intense.
noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryThose who have died: dead people.
From Middle English ded, deed, from Old English dēad, from Proto-West Germanic *daud, from Proto-Germanic *daudaz. Compare West Frisian dead, dea, Dutch dood, German tot, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål død, Norwegian Nynorsk daud, Swedish död.
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