The difference between Dead and Deceased
When used as nouns, dead means time when coldness, darkness, or stillness is most intense, whereas deceased means a dead person.
When used as adjectives, dead means no longer living, whereas deceased means no longer alive, dead.
Dead is also adverb with the meaning: exactly.
Dead is also verb with the meaning: to prevent by disabling.
check bellow for the other definitions of Dead and Deceased
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Dead as an adjective (not comparable):
No longer living.
Examples:
"All of my grandparents are dead."
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Dead as an adjective (hyperbole):
Figuratively, not alive; lacking life.
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Dead as an adjective (of another person):
So hated that they are absolutely ignored.
Examples:
"He is dead to me."
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Dead as an adjective:
Doomed; marked for death (literally or as a hyperbole).
Examples:
"You come back here this instant! Oh, when I get my hands on you, you're dead, mister!"
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Dead as an adjective:
Without emotion.
Examples:
"She stood with dead face and limp arms, unresponsive to my plea."
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Dead as an adjective:
Stationary; static.
Examples:
"the dead load on the floor"
"a dead lift"
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Dead as an adjective:
Without interest to one of the senses; dull; flat.
Examples:
"'dead air"
"a dead glass of soda."
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Dead as an adjective:
Unproductive.
Examples:
"'dead time"
"'dead fields"
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Dead as an adjective (not comparable, of a machine, device, or electrical circuit):
Completely inactive; currently without power; without a signal.
Examples:
"OK, the circuit's dead. Go ahead and cut the wire."
"Now that the motor's dead you can reach in and extract the spark plugs."
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Dead as an adjective (of a battery):
Unable to emit power, being discharged (flat) or faulty.
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Dead as an adjective (not comparable):
Broken or inoperable.
Examples:
"That monitor is dead; don’t bother hooking it up."
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Dead as an adjective (not comparable):
No longer used or required.
Examples:
"There are several dead laws still on the books regulating where horses may be hitched."
"Is this beer glass dead?"
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Dead as an adjective (engineering):
Not imparting motion or power by design.
Examples:
"the dead spindle of a lathe"
"A [[dead axle]], also called a lazy axle, is not part of the drivetrain, but is instead free-rotating."
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Dead as an adjective (not comparable, sports):
Not in play.
Examples:
"Once the ball crosses the foul line, it's dead."
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Dead as an adjective (not comparable, golf, of a golf ball):
Lying so near the hole that the player is certain to hole it in the next stroke.
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Dead as an adjective (not comparable, baseball, slang, 1800s):
Tagged out.
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Dead as an adjective (not comparable):
Full and complete.
Examples:
"'dead stop"
"'dead sleep"
"'dead giveaway"
"'dead silence"
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Dead as an adjective (not comparable):
Exact.
Examples:
"'dead center"
"'dead aim"
"a dead eye"
"a dead level"
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Dead as an adjective:
Experiencing pins and needles (paresthesia).
Examples:
"After sitting on my hands for a while, my arms became dead."
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Dead as an adjective:
Constructed so as not to transmit sound; soundless.
Examples:
"a dead floor"
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Dead as an adjective (obsolete):
Bringing death; deadly.
Examples:
"rfquotek Shakespeare"
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Dead as an adjective (legal):
Cut off from the rights of a citizen; deprived of the power of enjoying the rights of property.
Examples:
"A person who is banished or who becomes a monk is civilly dead."
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Dead as an adverb (degree, informal, colloquial):
Exactly.
Examples:
"dead right''; ''dead level''; ''dead flat''; ''dead straight''; ''dead left"
"He hit the target dead in the centre."
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Dead as an adverb (degree, informal, colloquial):
Very, absolutely, extremely.
Examples:
"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"
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Dead as an adverb:
Suddenly and completely.
Examples:
"He stopped dead."
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Dead as an adverb (informal):
As if dead.
Examples:
"dead tired''; ''dead quiet''; ''dead asleep''; ''dead pale''; ''dead cold''; ''dead still"
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Dead as a noun (uncountable, singulare tantum, often with "the"):
Time when coldness, darkness, or stillness is most intense.
Examples:
"The dead of night.'' ''The dead of winter."
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Dead as a noun (plural, with "the", a demonstrative, or a possessive):
Those who have died.
Examples:
"Have respect for the dead."
"The villagers are mourning their dead."
"The dead are always with us, in our hearts."
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Dead as a verb (transitive):
To prevent by disabling; stop.
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Dead as a verb (transitive):
To make dead; to deaden; to deprive of life, force, or vigour.
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Dead as a verb (UK, transitive, slang):
To kill.
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Deceased as an adjective:
No longer alive, dead
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Deceased as an adjective:
Belonging to the dead.
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Deceased as an adjective (legal):
One who has died. In property law, the alternate term decedent is generally used. In criminal law, “the deceased” refers to the victim of a homicide.
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Deceased as a noun:
A dead person.
Examples:
"The deceased was interred in his local churchyard."
"a memorial to the deceased of two World Wars"
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Deceased as a noun (legal):
One who has died. In property law, the alternate term decedent is generally used in US English. In criminal law, “the deceased” refers to the victim of a homicide.