Meaning of deader | Babel Free

Definitions

comparative form of dead: more dead; or at least more evidently dead.

colloquial, comparative, figuratively, form-of, humorous

Examples

“He was deader than a dead dog's bone buried down a blind alley off a dead-end street in a ghost town. Man, he was dead.”

“Oldwick drew the pistol from his shirt. "If he has made up his mind to kill me," he thought. "I can't see that it will make any difference in the long run whether I infuriate him or not. The beggar can't kill me any deader in one mood than another."”

“The days of pioneering, of lassies in sunbonnets, and bears killed with axes in piney clearings, are deader now than Camelot...”

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