dead

muerto

Que ya no está vivo.

En inglés sencillo: No longer alive.

• The bird is dead.
• They found several dead fish in the lake.
• Her grandfather has been dead for years.

Sinónimos: deceased

Antónimos: alive, living

Expresiones frecuentes: dead body, dead bird, dead plants, dead relatives

agotado, sin corriente

Que no funciona por falta de electricidad, energía o señal.

En inglés sencillo: Unable to work because there is no electricity, power, or signal.

• My phone is dead.
• The car had a dead battery.
• We tried calling, but the line was dead.

Sinónimos: flat, unpowered

Antónimos: live

Expresiones frecuentes: dead battery, dead phone, dead line

entumecido, insensible

Que no siente nada, referido a una parte del cuerpo.

En inglés sencillo: Unable to feel anything in a part of your body.

• My arm feels dead.
• She woke up with a dead leg.
• His hand was dead after he slept on it.

Sinónimos: numb

Expresiones frecuentes: dead arm, dead leg, dead hand

sin vida, estéril

Donde no hay plantas, animales ni otros seres vivos.

En inglés sencillo: Having no living plants, animals, or other forms of life.

• They explored a dead planet.
• The pollution left a dead landscape behind.
• Could anything grow in this dead soil?

Sinónimos: lifeless, barren

Expresiones frecuentes: dead planet, dead landscape, dead world

completamente, exactamente

Refuerza una descripción indicando que algo es completo o exacto.

En inglés sencillo: Completely or exactly, used to make a description stronger.

• You are dead right.
• The village is dead ahead.
• She stopped dead when she saw the snake.

Sinónimos: completely, exactly, totally

Expresiones frecuentes: dead wrong, dead ahead, dead serious

completamente, profundamente

Indica cansancio, silencio, inmovilidad o palidez extremos, que recuerdan a la muerte.

En inglés sencillo: In a way that seems like death, with extreme tiredness, silence, stillness, or lack of color.

• I was dead tired.
• The children were dead asleep.
• She stood dead still behind the door.

Sinónimos: utterly, completely

Expresiones frecuentes: dead tired, dead asleep, dead still

muertos, difuntos

Personas que han muerto, consideradas como grupo.

En inglés sencillo: People who have died, considered as a group.

• They buried the dead.
• A memorial honors the dead from the war.
• The living gathered to remember the dead.

Cómo se usa: the dead + plural verb (The dead are remembered each year.)

Sinónimos: the deceased

Antónimos: the living

Expresiones frecuentes: the dead, bury the dead, honor the dead

plena noche, pleno invierno

Momento más oscuro de la noche o período más frío y tranquilo del invierno.

En inglés sencillo: The time when night is darkest or winter is coldest and quietest.

• A door opened in the dead of night.
• We visited the cabin in the dead of winter.
• She heard footsteps during the dead of night.

Cómo se usa: in the dead of night/winter (They arrived in the dead of night.)

Sinónimos: depths

Expresiones frecuentes: dead of night, dead of winter