Synonyms for deads
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : ded |
| Phonetic Transcription : dɛd |
Définition of deads
Origin :- Old English dead "dead," also "torpid, dull;" of water, "still, standing," from Proto-Germanic *dauthaz (cf. Old Saxon dod, Danish død, Swedish död, Old Frisian dad, Middle Dutch doot, Dutch dood, Old High German tot, German tot, Old Norse dauðr, Gothic dauþs "dead"), from PIE *dhou-toz-, from root *dheu- (3) "to die" (see die (v.)).
- Meaning "insensible" is first attested early 13c. Of places, "inactive, dull," from 1580s. Used from 16c. in adjectival sense of "utter, absolute, quite" (cf. dead drunk first attested 1590s; dead heat, 1796). As an adverb, from late 14c. Dead on is 1889, from marksmanship. Dead duck is from 1844. Dead letter is from 1703, used of laws lacking force as well as uncollected mail. Phrase in the dead of the night first recorded 1540s.
- For but ich haue bote of mi bale I am ded as dorenail (c.1350).
- Dead soldier "emptied liquor bottle" is from 1913 in that form; the image is older:
- Dead man, or Dead marine, a colloquialism for an empty bottle, possibly in humorous recognition of the fact that the spirits have departed. But the French also have the same phrase, un corps mort, a dead body, for which there can be no punning pretext. [Walsh, 1892]
- As in casualty : noun victim
- Fight the Company's men when she come, but fight not so very strong that you are any deads.
- Extract from : « Soldiers Three, Part II. » by Rudyard Kipling
- It blunts the edge of a sword, and deads the leaden thump of a bullet.
- Extract from : « Elizabethan and Jacobean Pamphlets » by Various
- To the left were piled the "deads" of the abandoned copper-mines.
- Extract from : « Furze the Cruel » by John Trevena
- W'en Gen'al Grant see how near defeat he was, he put up a white flag as a signal for time out to bury his deads.
- Extract from : « Slave Narratives Vol. XIV. South Carolina, Part 2 » by Works Projects Administration
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