dead

mort

Qui n’est plus en vie.

En anglais simple : No longer alive.

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

Synonymes : deceased

Contraires : alive, living

Expressions courantes : dead body, dead bird, dead plants, dead relatives

à plat, hors service

Qui ne fonctionne plus faute d’électricité, d’énergie ou de signal.

En anglais simple : 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.

Synonymes : flat, unpowered

Contraires : live

Expressions courantes : dead battery, dead phone, dead line

engourdi, insensible

Qui ne ressent plus rien, en parlant d’une partie du corps.

En anglais simple : 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.

Synonymes : numb

Expressions courantes : dead arm, dead leg, dead hand

sans vie, stérile

Où il n’y a ni plantes, ni animaux, ni autres êtres vivants.

En anglais simple : 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?

Synonymes : lifeless, barren

Expressions courantes : dead planet, dead landscape, dead world

complètement, exactement

Renforce une description en indiquant que quelque chose est complet ou exact.

En anglais simple : 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.

Synonymes : completely, exactly, totally

Expressions courantes : dead wrong, dead ahead, dead serious

complètement, profondément

Indique une fatigue, un silence, une immobilité ou une pâleur extrêmes, qui évoquent la mort.

En anglais simple : 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.

Synonymes : utterly, completely

Expressions courantes : dead tired, dead asleep, dead still

morts, défunts

Ensemble des personnes qui sont mortes.

En anglais simple : 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.

Comment l'utiliser : the dead + plural verb (The dead are remembered each year.)

Synonymes : the deceased

Contraires : the living

Expressions courantes : the dead, bury the dead, honor the dead

cœur de la nuit, cœur de l’hiver

Moment le plus sombre de la nuit ou période la plus froide et calme de l’hiver.

En anglais simple : 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.

Comment l'utiliser : in the dead of night/winter (They arrived in the dead of night.)

Synonymes : depths

Expressions courantes : dead of night, dead of winter