To lie very still, like a corpse. / To act as though defeated while awaiting a chance to attack.

(of a patient) Found to be dead upon arriving at hospital. / Found dead at a scene, upon the arrival of an emergency medical service (EMS) or the police. / (slang) Of a new item: received broken.

Any of the seven deadly sins: anger, greed/avarice, envy, gluttony, lust, pride, and sloth.

The degree to which a thing is deadly. / The quality of being deadly. / Tedium, or the quality of being boring

A female deacon (Anglican). / A female servant in the early Christian church. / The nun in charge of the altar in a convent.

A fruit, supposed to dissolve into smoke or ash when plucked.

(sports) In a series of sporting fixtures, a match of which the result is irrelevant, the winner of the series having already been determined by earlier results.

An area in Gloucestershire, between the rivers Severn and Wye, with a long history of mining.

(idiomatic) Utterly deaf.

(now offensive) Unable to hear or speak.