(often with "the") Time when coldness, darkness, or stillness is most intense.

(UK) (usually in the plural) Sterile mining waste, often present as many large rocks stacked inside the workings. / (bodybuilding, colloquial) Clipping of deadlift.

(transitive) To prevent by disabling; stop. / (transitive) To make dead; to deaden; to deprive of life, force, or vigour. / (UK, US, transitive, slang) To kill.

The cessation of life and all associated processes; the end of an organism's existence as an entity independent from its environment and its return to an inert, nonliving state.

The death of a woman that occurs directly related to the procreative process; obstetric death.

A period or condition when food is rare and hence expensive; famine. / (by extension) Scarcity; a lack or short supply. / (obsolete) Dearness; the quality of being rare or costly.

Unable to hear, or only partially able to hear. / Unwilling to listen or be persuaded; determinedly inattentive; regardless. / Of or relating to the community of deaf people.

(nonstandard, rare) A deaf person.

(obsolete, transitive) To deafen.

superlative form of dear: most dear