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Dead Sea
- noun - a saltwater lake on the border between Israel and Jordan; its surface in 1292 feet below sea level
Dead Set
- adjective - fixed in your purpose; "bent on going to the theater"; "dead set against intervening"; "out to win every event"
Dead-End
- adjective - lacking opportunities for development or advancement; "stuck in a dead-end job"
Dead-Eye
- - A round, flattish, wooden block, encircled by a rope, or an iron band, and pierced with three holes to receive the lanyard; -- used to extend the shrouds and stays, and for other purposes. Called also deadman's eye.
Dead-Pay
- - Pay drawn for soldiers, or others, really dead, whose names are kept on the rolls.
Deadbeat
- noun - someone who fails to meet a financial obligation
Deadbolt
- noun - the part of a lock that is engaged or withdrawn with a key
Deadened
- verb - become lifeless, less lively, intense, or active; lose life, force, or vigor
- convert (metallic mercury) into a grey powder consisting of minute globules, as by shaking with chalk or fatty oil
- cut a girdle around so as to kill by interrupting the circulation of water and nutrients; "girdle the plant"
- devoid of physical sensation; numb; "his gums were dead from the novocain"; "she felt no discomfort as the dentist drilled her deadened tooth"; "a public desensitized by continuous television coverage of atrocities"
- lessen the momentum or velocity of; "deaden a ship's headway"
- made or become less intense; "the deadened pangs of hunger"
- make less lively, intense, or vigorous; impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation; "Terror blunted her feelings"; "deaden a sound"
- make vague or obscure or make (an image) less visible; "muffle the message"
- make vapid or deprive of spirit; "deadened wine"
Deadener
- - One who, or that which, deadens or checks.