Dead time to let a part of you go; a dead-beat; a dead-end job; right on dead centre; someone “dead from the neck up”; finishing in a dead heat; travelling by dead reckoning; dead set on doing something; getting rid of the dead weight; wouldn’t be “seen dead with”; check your dead-bolt; in a deadlock situation; a deadpan face. (See death) Who is “dead to the world”?