He hoarded dead birds, wore shirts with funeral announcements printed on them and wore corpse paint —being one of the first in.. Dead applies literally to what is deprived of vital force but is used figuratively of anything that has lost any attribute (such as energy,.
Dead, defunct, deceased, departed, late mean devoid of life.. In most medical communities, a person is considered dead once there is irreversible and total cessation of all brain function, regardless of a continuing functional circulatory system.