Dead and For certain

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Dead adverb - In a direct line or course.

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

Nearby Word: deadly

For certain adverb - Definitely or positively (`sure' is sometimes used informally for `surely').

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Dead and for certain are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Dead" instead an adverb phrase "For certain".

Sandor Clegane, of A Song of Ice and Fire, might apply here — it's still not for certain if he's alive or dead, though there is evidence for either.

Source: Left for Dead
By the end of the book, nobody knows for certain whether he's really dead, or just (As the uptimers call it) 'pulling an Elvis'.

Source: Literature / 1632
Similar to Warhammer, RPG Diablo II leaves bodies populating the floor until the character leaves the area in order for certain spells and abilities to be useable (raising the dead, searching corpses and, particularly effective, making bodies explode to the detriment of those nearby).

Source: Everything Fades

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