Definitions
Deader - as an adjective
No longer living.
Example: "All of my grandparents are dead."
Figuratively, not alive; lacking life.
(of another person) so hated that they are absolutely ignored.
Example: "He is dead to me."
Doomed; marked for death (literally or as a hyperbole).
Example: ""you come back here this instant! oh, you're dead, mister!""
Without emotion.
Example: "She stood with dead face and limp arms, unresponsive to my plea."
Stationary; static.
Example: "A dead lift"
Without interest to one of the senses; dull; flat.
Example: "A dead glass of soda."
Unproductive.
Example: "Dead fields"
(of a machine, device, or electrical circuit) completely inactive; currently without power; without a signal.
Example: "Now that the motor's dead you can reach in and extract the spark plugs."
(of a battery) unable to emit power, being discharged (flat) or faulty.
Broken or inoperable.
Example: "That monitor is dead; don’t bother hooking it up."
No longer used or required.
Example: "Is this beer glass dead?"
Not imparting motion or power by design.
Example: "A dead axle, also called a lazy axle, is not part of the drivetrain, but is instead free-rotating."
Not in play.
Example: "Once the ball crosses the foul line, it's dead."
(of a golf ball) lying so near the hole that the player is certain to hole it in the next stroke.
(1800s) tagged out.
Full and complete.
Example: "Dead giveaway"
Exact.
Example: "A dead eye"
Experiencing pins and needles (paresthesia).
Example: "After sitting on my hands for a while, my arms became dead."
Constructed so as not to transmit sound; soundless.
Example: "A dead floor"
Bringing death; deadly.
Cut off from the rights of a citizen; deprived of the power of enjoying the rights of property.
Example: "A person who is banished or who becomes a monk is civilly dead."
(often with "to") indifferent to, no longer subject to or ruled by (sin, guilt, pleasure, etc).
Deader - as a noun
One who is deceased, or will shortly become so.
Example: "I could tell he was a deader by the way his eyes were glazed over; there was no life left in those eyes."
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Word Game Points
DEADER has a SCRABBLE points total of 8.
DEADER has a WORDS WITH FRIENDS points total of 8.
DEADER has a WORDFEUD points total of 8.