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What is the adjective for deaths?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs die and dead which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

dead
  1. (not comparable) No longer living.
  2. (hyperbolic) Figuratively, not alive; lacking life.
  3. (of another person) So hated that they are absolutely ignored.
  4. Without emotion.
  5. Stationary; static.
  6. Without interest to one of the senses; dull; flat.
  7. Unproductive.
  8. (not comparable, of a machine, device, or electrical circuit) Completely inactive; without power; without a signal.
  9. (not comparable) Broken or inoperable.
  10. (not comparable) No longer used or required.
  11. (engineering) Not imparting motion or power.
  12. (not comparable, sports) Not in play.
  13. (not comparable, golf, of a golf ball) Lying so near the hole that the player is certain to hole it in the next stroke.
  14. (not comparable, baseball, slang, 1800s) Tagged out.
  15. (not comparable) Full and complete.
  16. (not comparable) Exact.
  17. Experiencing pins and needles (paresthesia).
  18. (informal) (Certain to be) in big trouble.
  19. Constructed so as not to transmit sound; soundless.
  20. (obsolete) Bringing death; deadly.
  21. (law) Cut off from the rights of a citizen; deprived of the power of enjoying the rights of property.
  22. Synonyms:
  23. Examples:
    1. “The dead soldiers were honored for their courage and valor.”
      “He knew that he really needed to have a shower, but he felt dead to the world.”
      “I am feeling absolutely dead after a grueling, high-intensity workout.”
deadly
  1. (obsolete) Subject to death; mortal.
  2. Causing death; lethal.
  3. Aiming or willing to destroy; implacable; desperately hostile.
  4. (by extension) Very accurate (of aiming with a bow, firearm, etc.).
  5. (informal) Very boring.
  6. (informal) Excellent, awesome, cool.
  7. Synonyms:
  8. Examples:
    1. “It describes what happens when a deadly plague strikes the French-Algerian town of Oran, and how various people react to it, especially when the whole town is quarantined.”
      “His face was deadly pale, and the blood trickling down lent a ghastly horror to his countenance.”
      “The Apaches and Comanches became deadly enemies, and their enmity was to affect Spanish policy toward these tribal groups.”
dying
  1. Approaching death; about to die; moribund.
  2. Declining, terminal, or drawing to an end.
  3. Pertaining to death, or the moments before death.
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “So how do you write a letter to your dying mother, a letter which both you and she know is basically a goodbye?”
      “It will wean us off the dying pillars of tourism and financial services.”
      “His dying wish was for a trip to Lourdes with his daughter, Shannon.”
deathly
  1. Appearing as though dead, or on the verge of death.
  2. Deadly, fatal, causing death.
  3. Extreme.
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “Anxiety would overwhelm him, and slowly, he succumbed to a deathly illness.”
      “She felt the color leave her face and a deathly chill creep over her.”
      “It is with deep regret and heaviness of heart that I am relating the deathly news of our guru's passing.”
deathful
  1. (archaic) Full of death or slaughter.
  2. (archaic) Liable to undergo death.
  3. Resembling death.
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “And what we found was not horrible nor deathful, but bright, promising, scented like first fruits.”
      “You are not an artist by reproving nature into deathful sameness, but by animating your copy of her into vital variation.”
      “When a boy reads of the Desert of Sahara, he pictures it as terrible and deathful.”
deathlike
  1. Resembling or characteristic of death.
  2. (obsolete) Deadly.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “The dreamer eventually unravels the identity of the deathlike apparition.”
      “One is pale and deathlike while the other has the ruddy color of health and life.”
      “Others were bloated with faces puffed, but were they to be drained of that oedematous fluid, they would have been skinny and deathlike.”
deathy
  1. (obsolete) Relating to death.
  2. Misspelling of deathly.
  3. Examples:
    1. “I finish the last, trippy, deathy French roman policier and reach sunset as we curve round the bay at Montrose.”
      “An arm, on which the deathy skin clung to the bones, dragged rather than supported a languid infant.”
      “The Raven dislikes all animal food that has not a deathy smack.”
deadass
  1. (US) Boring.
  2. (African American Vernacular) Dead (serious).
deathworthy
  1. worthy of death, worthy of capital punishment
deathsome
  1. Having the characteristic of death; alluding to or suggesting death
deadish
  1. Somewhat dead, dull, or lifeless.
deathward
  1. which leads toward death
deade
  1. Obsolete spelling of dead
deathproof
  1. Resistant to dying.
deathlier
deathliest
deadlier
  1. comparative form of deadly: more deadly
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The toxin contained in the organs of fugu, or puffer fish, is said to be 1300 times deadlier than cyanide.”
      “He argues that participation in primitive warfare, in proportional terms, is often deadlier than participation in modern warfare.”
      “Since it first emerged in 1997, avian influenza has become deadlier and more resilient.”
deadliest
  1. superlative form of deadly: most deadly
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Some of the herbicide contained dioxin, one of the world's deadliest poisons.”
      “He was left for dead in the middle of the deadliest storm in the history of modern sailing.”
      “Orissa was recently devastated by the deadliest cyclone of the century causing death and destruction on an unheard of scale.”
deadest
  1. (figurative or humorous) superlative form of dead: most dead.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Here we have a maximum of equality and the deadest and most static of results.”
      “It is, I should hope, the deadest and most utterly inert little town in the British dominions.”
      “The trill continues in a long chain, desperate to evoke life from the deadest of instruments.”
died
deaded
  1. simple past tense and past participle of dead
deading
  1. present participle of dead
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