dead – English verb conjugation

English verb forms of dead

Nominal Forms

Infinitive: to dead
Participle: deaded
Gerund: deading

Cognates

-

Indicative

Present

Idead
youdead
he;she;itdeads
wedead
youdead
theydead

Perfect

Ihave deaded
youhave deaded
he;she;ithas deaded
wehave deaded
youhave deaded
theyhave deaded

Past

Ideaded
youdeaded
he;she;itdeaded
wedeaded
youdeaded
theydeaded

Pluperfect

Ihad deaded
youhad deaded
he;she;ithad deaded
wehad deaded
youhad deaded
theyhad deaded

Future

Iwill dead
youwill dead
he;she;itwill dead
wewill dead
youwill dead
theywill dead

Future Perfect

Iwill have deaded
youwill have deaded
he;she;itwill have deaded
wewill have deaded
youwill have deaded
theywill have deaded

Subjunctive

Present

Idead
youdead
he;she;itdead
wedead
youdead
theydead

Perfect

Ihave deaded
youhave deaded
he;she;ithave deaded
wehave deaded
youhave deaded
theyhave deaded

Imperfect

Ideaded
youdeaded
he;she;itdeaded
wedeaded
youdeaded
theydeaded

Pluperfect

Ihad deaded
youhad deaded
he;she;ithad deaded
wehad deaded
youhad deaded
theyhad deaded

Conditional

Present

Iwould dead
youwould dead
he;she;itwould dead
wewould dead
youwould dead
theywould dead

Perfect

Iwould have deaded
youwould have deaded
he;she;itwould have deaded
wewould have deaded
youwould have deaded
theywould have deaded

Imperative

youdead
weLet's dead
youdead

Progressive (Continuous) Forms

Indicative

Present

Iam deading
youare deading
he;she;itis deading
weare deading
youare deading
theyare deading

Perfect

Ihave been deading
youhave been deading
he;she;ithas been deading
wehave been deading
youhave been deading
theyhave been deading

Past

Iwas deading
youwere deading
he;she;itwas deading
wewere deading
youwere deading
theywere deading

Pluperfect

Ihad been deading
youhad been deading
he;she;ithad been deading
wehad been deading
youhad been deading
theyhad been deading

Future

Iwill be deading
youwill be deading
he;she;itwill be deading
wewill be deading
youwill be deading
theywill be deading

Future Perfect

Iwill have been deading
youwill have been deading
he;she;itwill have been deading
wewill have been deading
youwill have been deading
theywill have been deading

Conditional

Present

Iwould be deading
youwould be deading
he;she;itwould be deading
wewould be deading
youwould be deading
theywould be deading

Perfect

Iwould have been deading
youwould have been deading
he;she;itwould have been deading
wewould have been deading
youwould have been deading
theywould have been deading

Other

Verbs conjugated like 'dead'

abandon, abduct, abear, aberr, abject, abord, abort, abound, abraid, abray, abrook, abscind, abscond, absist, absorb, abstain, abstract, accend, accent, accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)

Verbs similar to 'dead'

bead, dad, deaf, deal, dean, dear, deed, dread, head, lead,

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms

to put to death; to extinguish life.
annihilate, bag, bereave of life, blight, bring down, bury, cack, croak, crush, dash, deactivate, demolish, destroy, dispatch, dispose of, do, do in, dust, eliminate, end, eradicate, exterminate, finish, finish off, flatten, lay waste to, make a way with, mortify, neutralize, obliterate, off, pay off, pick off, polish off, punch someone's ticket, put an end to, put down, put out of one's misery, put six feet under, put to sleep, ravage, rub out, ruin, scotch, scupper, scuttle, send to eternity, send to hell, send to the grave, send to the great beyond, send to the next life, smash, smite, snuff, squash, stiff, take, take care of, take down, take out, terminate, terminate with extreme prejudice, kill, torpedo, waste, wipe out, wreck

Additional Information

Phrasal Verbs

Etymology

From Middle English ded, deed, from Old English dēad, from Proto-West Germanic *daud, from Proto-Germanic *daudaz. Compare West Frisian dead, dea, Dutch dood, German tot, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål død, Norwegian Nynorsk daud, Swedish död.

Verbs referencing "dead"

Bislama ded, Sranan dede.

Sample Sentences

  • 1826, The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Edward Reynolds, Lord Bishop of Norwich, collected by Edward Reynolds, Benedict Riveley, and Alexander Chalmers. pp. 227. London: B. Holdsworth.
  • “What a man should do, when finds his natural impotency dead him in spiritual works”
  • Heaven's stern decree, / With many an ill, hath numb'd and deaded me. [1614–1615, Homer, “(please specify the book number)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, →OCLC; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, […], volume (please specify the book number), London: John Russell Smith, […], 1857, →OCLC:]
  • I shoulda deaded it from genesis instead of hittin' the Guinnesses [2004, “Guinnesses”, in Mm..Food, performed by MF Doom ft. Angelika & 4-IZE:]
  • This dude at the club was trying to kill us so I deaded him, and then I had to collect from Spice. [2006, Leighanne Boyd, Once Upon A Time In The Bricks, page 178:]
  • “What, you was just gonna dead him because if that's the case then why the fuck we getting the money?” Sha asked annoyed. [2008, Marvlous Harrison, The Coalition, page 106:]
  • TOMMY:”Honestly, I’d love to help you with that but I’ve got a surplus of motherfuckers that I need to dead right now.” [2020 January 6, Courtney A. Kemp, Matt K. Turner, 33:48 from the start, in Power, season 6, episode 11, spoken by Tommy Egan (E Joseph Sikora):]
  • "I thought I told you to shut up," said Jesus. "I don't be laying up with chickenheads, so you need to dead that shit before you piss me the fuck off." [2005, Black Artemis, Picture Me Rollin', New York, N.Y.: New American Library, →ISBN, page 269:]
  • "This might be kinda beside the point right now," I said carefully, settling into the chair across from him, "but it's probably time to dead all that open-door no-gun shit, huh?" [2013, Adam Mansbach, Rage Is Back, New York, N.Y.: Viking, →ISBN, page 140:]
  • "Shorty, whatchu got in your pocket? Let me see that hat." ¶ "Nah, man. Dead that." Out would come the .32. ¶ "Oh, aight. You got that, shorty, you got that." [2018, U-God [Lamont Hawkins], Raw: My Journey Into The Wu-Tang, New York, N.Y.: Picador, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 118:]