Meaning

noun people who are no longer living

noun a time when coldness (or some other quality associated with death) is intense

adjective no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life

originFrom Middle English ded, deed, from Old English dēad, from Proto-West Germanic *daud, from Proto-Germanic *daudaz. Compare West Frisian dead, dea, Dutch dood, German tot, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål død, Norwegian Nynorsk daud, Swedish död.

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