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| beat a dead horse | | | traducere nedisponibilă |
| come back from the dead | v | figurative (make a comeback, become successful again) | a se întoarce din morţi loc.vb. |
| In last place going into the final lap, the runner came back from the dead to win the race. |
| come back from the dead | v | figurative (recover from serious illness) | a se întoarce din morţi loc.vb. |
| After the triple bypass he came back from the dead and now he is living an active life. |
| dead against | | | total împotrivă |
| dead ahead | adv | US, slang (directly in front) | direct în faţă adv. |
| You can't possibly miss the target, it's dead ahead! |
| dead and buried | | | mort şi îngropat |
| dead and gone | | | mort şi îngropat |
| dead body | n | (corpse) | cadavru s.n. |
| The dead body lay undiscovered for 3 days. |
| dead calm | n | (nautical: no wind) nautic | liniştit, calm, fără vânt adj. |
| A sailing ship can make no progress at all in a dead calm. |
| dead calm | n | (total stillness) | linişte totală s.f. |
| A dead calm enveloped the house after his wife left him. |
| dead centre, US: dead center | n | (exact centre, precise middle) | centru centrului s.n. |
| dead centre, US: dead center | adv | (precisely in the middle) | exact în mijloc adv. |
| dead end | | despre străzi | fără ieşire |
| dead heat | n | (sport: tie, joint win, draw) sport | egalitate s.f. |
| Not even the photograph could distinguish the winner, so the race was declared a dead heat. |
| dead language | n | (language whose speakers have died out) | limbă moartă s.f. |
| Latin is a dead language. |
| dead language | n | (language which is no longer a first language) | traducere nedisponibilă |
| dead loss | n | (sth, sb, useless) | traducere nedisponibilă |
| Don't ask her to help, she's a dead loss. |
| dead man | | | om mort |
| dead person | n | (corpse, dead body) | cadavru s.n. |
| dead person | n | (sb who is no longer alive) | cadavru s.n. |
| dead right | | | mare dreptate |
| dead ringer | n | slang (sb identical to another person) | traducere nedisponibilă |
| He was a dead ringer for the President, and for a while made a good living impersonating him. |
| dead set | adj | (resolute, determined) | hotărât adj. |
| He was dead set on becoming a naval pilot, and was bitterly disappointed when he was rejected for poor eyesight . |
| He was dead set against the Prime Minister's proposal. |
| dead stop | | | oprire bruscă |
| dead to the world | | | a dormi profund |
| dead weight | | nave | dead weight |
| | nave | tonaj |
| dead zone | n | (area with no mobile phone coverage) | zonă moartă s.f. |
| dead-end street | n | US (cul-de-sac, road with no exit) | fundătură s.f. |
| Don't turn there, it's a dead-end street. |
| drop dead | | | a pica mort loc.vb. |
| half dead | adj | figurative (physically exhausted) de oboseală | pe jumătate mort adj. |
| David continued the climb, although he was half dead from the effort; he had to make it to the top. |
| in the dead of night | adv | (in the middle of the night) | în toiul nopţii adv. |
| Strange noises in the dead of night can be very scary. |
| over my dead body | | | nici în ruptul capului |
| risen from the dead | adj | (Bible: resurrected) | sculat din morţi adj. |
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