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Meaning of मृत in English

  • Deprived of life; -- opposed to alive and living; reduced to that state of a being in which the organs of motion and life have irrevocably ceased to perform their functions; as, a dead tree; a dead man.
  • Destitute of life; inanimate; as, dead matter.
  • Resembling death in appearance or quality; without show of life; deathlike; as, a dead sleep.
  • Still as death; motionless; inactive; useless; as, dead calm; a dead load or weight.
  • So constructed as not to transmit sound; soundless; as, a dead floor.
  • Unproductive; bringing no gain; unprofitable; as, dead capital; dead stock in trade.
  • Lacking spirit; dull; lusterless; cheerless; as, dead eye; dead fire; dead color, etc.
  • Monotonous or unvaried; as, a dead level or pain; a dead wall.
  • Sure as death; unerring; fixed; complete; as, a dead shot; a dead certainty.
  • Bringing death; deadly.
  • Wanting in religious spirit and vitality; as, dead faith; dead works.
  • Flat; without gloss; -- said of painting which has been applied purposely to have this effect.
  • Not brilliant; not rich; thus, brown is a dead color, as compared with crimson.
  • Cut off from the rights of a citizen; deprived of the power of enjoying the rights of property; as, one banished or becoming a monk is civilly dead.
  • Not imparting motion or power; as, the dead spindle of a lathe, etc. See Spindle.
  • To a degree resembling death; to the last degree; completely; wholly.
  • The most quiet or deathlike time; the period of profoundest repose, inertness, or gloom; as, the dead of winter.
  • One who is dead; -- commonly used collectively.
  • To make dead; to deaden; to deprive of life, force, or vigor.
  • To die; to lose life or force.
  • Having finished the course of life; dead; deceased.
  • A dead person; one deceased.
  • Dead at the birth; as, a stillborn child.
  • Fig.: Abortive; as, a stillborn poem.
  • To make as dead; to impair in vigor, force, activity, or sensation; to lessen the force or acuteness of; to blunt; as, to deaden the natural powers or feelings; to deaden a sound.
  • To lessen the velocity or momentum of; to retard; as, to deaden a ship's headway.
  • To make vapid or spiritless; as, to deaden wine.
  • To deprive of gloss or brilliancy; to obscure; as, to deaden gilding by a coat of size.
  • One who, or that which, deadens or checks.
  • One who receives free tickets for theaters, public conveyances, etc.
  • A buoy. See under Dead, a.
  • Somewhat dead, dull, or lifeless; deathlike.
  • The substances which inclose the ore on every side.
  • of Decease
  • Passed away; dead; gone.

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