Dead and Past

Dead

Dead adjective - No longer living.

Past is a synonym for dead in ceased to exist topic. In some cases you can use "Past" instead an adjective "Dead".

Nearby Word: deadly

Past

Past adjective - Having been such at some previous time.
Usage example: a past editor of the newspaper

Dead is a synonym for past in ceased to exist topic. Sometimes you can use "Dead" instead an adjective "Past".

Both words in one sentence

  • What You Are in the Dark Jack's dead, the lovely young woman from the previous episode is dead, Rose is as far as he knows stuck in the past, and he's got a weapon that could kill all the Daleks in an instant.
  • That Man Is Dead In Calamity Trigger, one of his ending paths has him making sure that that name is dead by fighting him as a sign of his complete abandonment to his past.
  • Dark and Troubled Past Kieran Trevarde of The God Eaters has a dead mother, some degree of rape and child prostitution, as well as drug addiction in his past, and a dead lover on top of all that at the outset of the novel.
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