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Exhausted Layabout Crossword Clue

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We've checked our database and believe the answer is DEAD which was last seen in the The Guardian Quick crossword.
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We think the answer to this crossword clue is: DEAD

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199%4Exact Match!
231%6Layabout
331%8 Idle layabout

About This Clues Answer

We think the answer is "DEAD" which means:

    adjective
  • • No longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life
  • • Not showing characteristics of life especially the capacity to sustain life; no longer exerting force or having energy or heat
  • noun
  • • People who are no longer living
  • • A time when coldness (or some other quality associated with death) is intense
  • adverb
  • • Completely and without qualification; used informally as intensifiers
  • • Quickly and without warning
  • adjective satellite
  • • Very tired
  • • Unerringly accurate
  • • Physically inactive
  • • (followed by `to') not showing human feeling or sensitivity; unresponsive
  • • Devoid of physical sensation; numb
  • • Lacking acoustic resonance
  • • Not yielding a return
  • • Not circulating or flowing
  • • Not surviving in active use
  • • Lacking resilience or bounce
  • • Out of use or operation because of a fault or breakdown
  • • No longer having force or relevance
  • • The complete stoppage of an action
  • • Drained of electric charge; discharged
  • • Devoid of activity
  • verb
  • • To prevent by disabling; stop.
  • • To make dead; to deaden; to deprive of life, force, or vigour.
  • • To kill.

An example sentence would be:

  • • "She found a dead bird in her backyard."
  • • "The flowers in the vase are already dead."

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