Thesaurus:dead
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English[edit]
Adjective[edit]
Sense: no longer living, be it a person or a thing[edit]
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- (to be) at peace
- (to be) at the end of the road
- (to be) bereft of life
- (to be) belly up
- (to have) bitten the big one
- (to have) bitten the dust
- (to have) bought the farm
- (to be) brown bread
- (to have) ceased to be
- (to be) checked out
- (to be) dead and gone
- (to be) dead as a dodo
- (to be) dead as a doornail
- (to be) dead as a doorknob
- (to be) dead as a duck
- (to be) dead as a haddock
- (to be) dead as a hammer
- (to be) dead as a herring
- (to be) dead as a mackerel
- (to be) dead as a nit
- (to be) dead as a pickled herring
- (to be) dead as a stump
- (to be) dead as a turd
- (to be) dead as a turd in a milk bucket
- (to be) dead as dishwater
- (to be) dead as mutton
- (to be) dead as stone
- (to be) dead as wood
- (to be) deader than dead
- (to be) deader than road kill
- (to go) feet first
- (to be) food for worms
- (to be) gone away
- (to have) gone on to one's reward
- (to have) gone to be with Jesus
- (to have) gone to heaven
- (to have) gone to one's final resting place
- (to have) gone to paradise
- (to have) gone to sing with the angels
- (to have) gone to the Great Beyond
- (to have) gone to the next life
- (to be) in Abraham's bosom
- (to be) in heaven
- (to be) in paradise
- (to be) in the grave
- (to have) joined the choir invisible
- (to have) kicked the bucket
- (to have) met one's end
- (to have) met one's maker
- (to be) no longer with us
- (to be) offed
- (to be) passed away
- (to have) passed on
- (to be) pushing up the daisies
- (to be) resting in peace
- (to have) run down the curtain
- (to have) seen the reaper
- (to have) shuffled off this mortal coil
- (to be) six feet under
- (to) sleep with the fishes
- (to have) snuffed it
- (to be) stone dead
- (to be) taking a dirt nap
- (to be) washed up
- (to be) with God
- (to be) worm food
- (to be) wasted
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Further reading[edit]
- 360. “death” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “dead” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.