Citations:dead

English citations of dead

Adjective: "Not alive; lacking life; no longer living."

• 2007: Jimmy Carr, 8 out of 10 Cats, 13^th day of July episode

  Romance is dead; men killed it, and made women clean up the mess.

Adjective: "Figuratively, not alive; lacking life."

• Shakespeare (1600) Hamlet, Marcellus, act 1, scene 1: “Thus twice before, and jump at this dead hour, / With martial stalk hath he gone by our watch”

• 2020 April 24, Adam Nossiter, “Denuded of Tourists, Paris Reveals Its Old Beating Heart”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

  Around Montmartre, where working people still live, Parisians perch at their windows, greeting each other and just looking out; my neighborhood around Madeleine, on the other hand, given over to luxury shops, is dead.

Adjective: (texting slang) Used to express a strong reaction to something humorous, mortifying, etc.

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• Amy Lea (2022 May 10) Set on You, Penguin, →ISBN, page 220: “And no, I don't mean fraud as in when you text your friends “omg dead dying lmfao roft” with a completely straight face.”