I.
adj.
VERBS
▪ be , lie
▪
His wife lay ~ beside him.
▪ look
▪ play
▪
The animal will sometimes escape danger by playing ~.
▪ drop , fall , fall down
▪
He just dropped ~ one day at work.
▪ shoot sb , strike sb
▪
Gunmen shot ~ two unarmed police officers.
▪
She had been struck ~ by lightning.
▪ find sb
▪
The woman was found ~ with a rope around her neck.
▪ declare sb , pronounce sb
▪
She was declared ~ on arrival at the hospital.
ADVERB
▪ quite ( esp. BrE )
▪
I'm afraid he's quite ~.
▪ almost , nearly
▪ already
▪
By the time the police arrived, he was already ~.
PHRASES
▪ ~ and buried ( figurative )
▪
In ten years he'll be ~ and buried as a politician.
▪ ~ and gone
▪
That won't happen until long after I'm ~ and gone.
▪ ~ or alive
▪
A reward was offered for his capture ~ or alive.
▪ more ~ than alive
▪
Poor child, she looks more ~ than alive.
Dead is used with these nouns: ↑ animal , ↑ battery , ↑ body , ↑ branch , ↑ brother , ↑ calm , ↑ cell , ↑ centre , ↑ corpse , ↑ father , ↑ flesh , ↑ flower , ↑ foliage , ↑ halt , ↑ heat , ↑ husband , ↑ language , ↑ leaf , ↑ man , ↑ mother , ↑ person , ↑ sheep , ↑ silence , ↑ sister , ↑ skin , ↑ sleep , ↑ snake , ↑ soldier , ↑ son , ↑ soul , ↑ standstill , ↑ tree , ↑ twig , ↑ uncle , ↑ weight , ↑ white , ↑ wife , ↑ wood , ↑ zone
II.
adv.
Dead is used with these adjectives: ↑ boring , ↑ calm , ↑ even , ↑ good , ↑ lucky , ↑ right , ↑ scared , ↑ set , ↑ sexy , ↑ silent , ↑ spooky , ↑ straight , ↑ tired , ↑ wrong
Dead is used with these verbs: ↑ stop