English-Dutch translations for dead

• dood
  Morgen kunnen we allemaal dood zijn!" Tomorrow we could all be dead.'
  De Grondwet is juridisch dood. The Constitution is legally dead.
  De voorgestelde Grondwet is dood! The proposed Constitution is dead!
• bloed-
• dode
  Daardoor blijven de teksten dode letters. So these texts remain a dead letter.
  Zijn ze niet meer dan een dode letter?Is this all no more than a dead letter?
  Het Verdrag van Lissabon is immers ten dode opgeschreven. After all, the Treaty of Lisbon is dead.
• doden
  Het is een symbool van levende doden. It is a symbol of dead men walking.
  Er zouden meer dan 30 doden zijn. More than thirty people are reported dead.
  De grote Franse dichter Baudelaire zei ooit: de doden, arme doden: hun verdriet is zwaar. The great French poet, Baudelaire, once said: the dead, the poor dead, have great sorrows.
• dood-
• doods
• gestorven
  Het is helaas een vroege dood gestorven.This is now regrettably as dead as a doornail.
  We hebben ontdekt dat een in België gestorven rund voor meelfabricage is gebruikt. We discovered that a dead cow was used for meal in Belgium.
  Ik sluit af met te zeggen dat de doden niet tevergeefs mogen zijn gestorven. I should like to conclude by saying that we should not let the dead die in vain.
• gestorvenen
• heengegaan
• oer-
• overleden
  Op dit moment is de helft van hen invalide, en zijn er al vijfhonderd overleden. Today half of them are invalids and 500 are dead.
  Twaalf politieke gevangenen zijn aan de gevolgen van een hongerstaking overleden. Twelve political prisoners dead from hunger strike.
  Anders kan niet worden bevestigd dat de patiënt is overleden. Otherwise, it will be impossible to declare that the patient is dead.
• overledenen
  Een beroep op organen van levende donoren is slechts gerechtvaardigd als laatste redmiddel, wanneer transplantatie van organen van overledenen niet mogelijk is. The use of living donors must only ever be considered as a last resort, when transplants from dead people are impossible.
  Wij moeten hun integendeel eer en respect betuigen en vasthouden aan het fundamentele Europese principe dat wij overledenen eren en onze beste tradities op het gebied van tolerantie in stand houden. What we must do is pay them honour and respect, observe the basic European principle of honouring the dead and keep to the best traditions of tolerance that we have.
• stilte
  Ik verzoek u een minuut stilte in acht te nemen ter nagedachtenis van de slachtoffers. I would ask you now to observe a minute's silence in memory of the dead.
  Op het ogenblik is er een doodse stilte in de buurlanden. Dat is wat mij betreft een zeer omineuze ontwikkeling. At the moment, there is a deadly silence in the neighbouring countries which, in my opinion, is a very ominous development.
  Mijnheer de Voorzitter, ik ben niet op de hoogte van de ernst van de situatie, maar als er kinderen zijn omgekomen, stel ik het Parlement voor een minuut stilte in acht te nemen. Mr President, I do not know the extent of this tragedy, but if children are dead, I would perhaps suggest to the House that we observe a minute' s silence.

Definition of dead

• No longer living
• Figuratively, not alive; lacking life
• So hated that they are absolutely ignored
• Doomed; marked for death (literally or as a hyperbole
• Without emotion
• Stationary; static
• Without interest to one of the senses; dull; flat
• Unproductive
• Completely inactive; currently without power; without a signal
• Unable to emit power, being discharged or faulty
• No longer used or required
• Not imparting motion or power by design
• Not in play
• Lying so near the hole that the player is certain to hole it in the next stroke
• Full and complete
• Exact
• Experiencing pins and needles (paresthesia
• Constructed so as not to transmit sound; soundless
• Bringing death; deadly
• Cut off from the rights of a citizen; deprived of the power of enjoying the rights of property
• Indifferent to, no longer subject to or ruled by (sin, guilt, pleasure, etc
• Exactly
• Very, absolutely, extremely
• Suddenly and completely
• As if dead
• Time when coldness, darkness, or stillness is most intense
• Those who have died
• Sterile mining waste, often present as many large rocks stacked inside the workings
• To prevent by disabling; stop
• To make dead; to deaden; to deprive of life, force, or vigour
• To kill. black urban slang?--

Examples

• All of my grandparents are dead
• He is dead to me
• You come back here this instant! Oh, when I get my hands on you, youre dead, mister!
• She stood with dead face and limp arms, unresponsive to my plea
• the dead load on the floor
• a dead lift
• dead air
• a dead glass of soda
• dead time
• dead fields
• OK, the circuits dead. Go ahead and cut the wire
• Now that the motors dead you can reach in and extract the spark plugs
• That monitor is dead; don’t bother hooking it up
• There are several dead laws still on the books regulating where horses may be hitched
• Is this beer glass dead?
• the dead spindle of a lathe
• A dead axle, also called a lazy axle, is not part of the drivetrain, but is instead free-rotating
• Once the ball crosses the foul line, its dead
• dead stop
• dead sleep
• dead giveaway
• dead silence
• dead center
• dead aim
• a dead eye
• a dead level
• After sitting on my hands for a while, my arms became dead.
• a dead floor
• A person who is banished or who becomes a monk is civilly dead
• dead right; dead level; dead flat; dead straight; dead left
• He hit the target dead in the centre.
• dead wrong; dead set; dead serious; dead drunk; dead broke; dead earnest; dead certain; dead slow; dead sure; dead simple; dead honest; dead accurate; dead easy; dead scared; dead solid; dead black; dead white; dead empty
• He stopped dead.
• dead tired; dead quiet; dead asleep; dead pale; dead cold; dead still
• The dead of night. The dead of winter.
• Have respect for the dead.
• The villagers are mourning their dead.
• The dead are always with us, in our hearts.

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