Dead and Shot

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Dead adjective - No longer living.

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Shot and dead are semantically related In some cases you can use "Shot" instead an adjective "Dead".

Nearby Word: deadly

Shot adjective - Varying in color when seen in different lights or from different angles.

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Dead and shot are semantically related in state topic. Sometimes you can use "Dead" instead an adjective "Shot".

In an episode of NYPD Blue, Andy Sipowicz is shot several times by an enemy and left for dead; as a parting-shot, the enemy then shoots him once in each buttock as a final insult.

Source: Shot in the Ass
Used in The Nightmare Before Christmas when the Halloween Town citizens thinks Jack was shot down and killed (well, okay, Jack was dead already, but there's apparently a Deader Than Dead scenario).

Source: Our Hero Is Dead
In Parker, Parker is shot by the gang, thrown out of moving car and then shot again (twice) before being kicked into a water-filled ditch and left for dead.

Source: Left for Dead

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