Dead and First off

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Dead adverb - In a direct line or course.

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First off and dead are semantically related. In some cases you can use "First off" instead an adverb "Dead".

Nearby Word: deadly

First off adverb - Before anything else.

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Dead and first off are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Dead" instead an adverb phrase "First off".

To make things worse, first off, she was born after the son's death, so she was The Unfavorite to a brother who had been dead her whole life and had never met herself.

Source: Replacement Goldfish / Live-Action TV
First off, Fry hugs Jrrr while riding with him on a bicycle, which disturbs Jrrr a bit and then when Fry is mispronounced dead by the omicronian doctor, Jrrr breaks down crying over Fry but gets overjoyed over realizing that Fry is still alive.

Source: Ho Yay / Western Animation
First off, the Val'Sarghress ruling family—Quain has Mel locked up and possibly raped and stole her daughter to raise as her own, Laelle is dead and being used as some kind of creepy golem, Syphile hated herself and pretty much everyone around her.

Source: Big Screwed-Up Family

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