Converse of object

• bury: On the slopes of Isandhlwana itself, men under Colonel Drury-Lowe are searching the battlefield in order to bury the English dead.

• commemorate: It commemorates the dead of both World War I & II.

Preposition: on

• arrival: It seems Robin was asthmatic, and stopped breathing at the scene of the arrest; he was dead on arrival at JR.

Preposition: as

• doornail: Some stray keyboard call and boom, dead as a doornail.

Adjective modifier

• presumed: Victims presumed dead were taken to nearby houses and laid out.

• righteous: Verse 16 deals with the righteous dead in general; verses 13 and 14 with the particular individuals whose death they were mourning.

Modifies a noun

• wood: The common people found their rights to hunt game or collect dead wood on common land, became criminal offenses.

• ringer: But he's a dead ringer for his brother.

• cert: Labor are a cast-iron, dead cert, shoo-in.

• body: Thy dead men shall live, together with my dead body shall they arise.

• reckoning: They postulate that for rodents, dead reckoning is a requirement for landmark learning.

• swan: Members of the public are asked to report to the Defra helpline ( 08459 335577 ) any multiple wild bird deaths or dead swans.

Used with adjective complement

• shoot: The boy was shot dead by a security officer who had no charges brought against him.

• pronounce: He was taken to St Thomas ' Hospital where was pronounced dead at 15 minutes past midnight.

• lie: Collective security lies dead among the mountains of Ethiopia.

• drop: He recalls that once a horse dropped dead in the traces.

• wash: The last English record on the BMLSS records occurred of a specimen washed up dead on the north Devon coast in 2000.

Preposition: in

• trespass: They are those who once were dead in trespasses and sins ( Eph. ii.

• transgression: The Bible says we are " dead in transgressions and sins " .

• sin: Yet it is obvious that believers were still conscious and alive when they were dead in sin.