Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to deadhead
Participle: deadheaded
Gerund: deadheading
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | deadhead |
| you | deadhead |
| he;she;it | deadheads |
| we | deadhead |
| you | deadhead |
| they | deadhead |
Perfect
| I | have deadheaded |
| you | have deadheaded |
| he;she;it | has deadheaded |
| we | have deadheaded |
| you | have deadheaded |
| they | have deadheaded |
Past
| I | deadheaded |
| you | deadheaded |
| he;she;it | deadheaded |
| we | deadheaded |
| you | deadheaded |
| they | deadheaded |
Pluperfect
| I | had deadheaded |
| you | had deadheaded |
| he;she;it | had deadheaded |
| we | had deadheaded |
| you | had deadheaded |
| they | had deadheaded |
Future
| I | will deadhead |
| you | will deadhead |
| he;she;it | will deadhead |
| we | will deadhead |
| you | will deadhead |
| they | will deadhead |
Future Perfect
| I | will have deadheaded |
| you | will have deadheaded |
| he;she;it | will have deadheaded |
| we | will have deadheaded |
| you | will have deadheaded |
| they | will have deadheaded |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | deadhead |
| you | deadhead |
| he;she;it | deadhead |
| we | deadhead |
| you | deadhead |
| they | deadhead |
Perfect
| I | have deadheaded |
| you | have deadheaded |
| he;she;it | have deadheaded |
| we | have deadheaded |
| you | have deadheaded |
| they | have deadheaded |
Imperfect
| I | deadheaded |
| you | deadheaded |
| he;she;it | deadheaded |
| we | deadheaded |
| you | deadheaded |
| they | deadheaded |
Pluperfect
| I | had deadheaded |
| you | had deadheaded |
| he;she;it | had deadheaded |
| we | had deadheaded |
| you | had deadheaded |
| they | had deadheaded |
Conditional
Present
| I | would deadhead |
| you | would deadhead |
| he;she;it | would deadhead |
| we | would deadhead |
| you | would deadhead |
| they | would deadhead |
Perfect
| I | would have deadheaded |
| you | would have deadheaded |
| he;she;it | would have deadheaded |
| we | would have deadheaded |
| you | would have deadheaded |
| they | would have deadheaded |
Imperative
| you | deadhead |
| we | Let's deadhead |
| you | deadhead |
Verbs conjugated like 'deadhead'
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 'deadhead'
dead-end,
deadhere,
adread,
behead,
deaden,
deadleg,
deadmelt,
deadpan,
deathen,
deheat,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From dead + head. Some senses are derived from theater jargon (originally spelled dead head) for audience members admitted without paying, which probably arose in analogy to dead weight or deadwood in reference to their lack of contribution to revenue or in reference to their unenthusiastic (dead) response to performances. Perhaps even from Latin caput mortuum, alchemy term for distillation residue. As Paul Quinion writes: Similarly, the term was applied to a dull or lazy person, one who contributes nothing to an enterprise, only in the early years of the twentieth century, well after the theatrical and transport senses had become well established.
Sample Sentences
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[…] the "puffing" system in criticism, whereby newspaper people were deadheaded in exchange for complimentary notices. [1960, Dissertation Abstracts, volume 20, page 2811:]
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Kit had fallen into conversation with a footplate man who was deadheading back out to Samarkand, where he lived with his wife and children. [2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 845:]
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Washington suggested that she get some old friend of the family to come with her, and said the Senator would “deadhead” him home again as soon as he had grown tired, of the sights of the capital. [1873, Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), Charles Dudley Warner, The Gilded Age, Part 4.:]
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He said that if the operator had taken $800 and sent the message at the regular rate, which was twenty-five cents, it would have been all right, as the Jew would be punished for trying to bribe a military operator; but when the operator took the $800 and then sent the message deadhead, he couldn't stand it, and he would never relent. [1910, Frank Lewis Dyer, Thomas Commerford Martin, Edison, His Life and Inventions:]
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1934, Lester Dent (as Kenneth Robeson), Brand Of The Werewolf, A Doc Savage Adventure
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“I'll deadhead the message for you, Mr. Savage. It won't cost a thing.”
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If you deadhead your roses regularly, they will bloom all season.