deid
Britishadjective
Example Sentences
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"The taxi driver said 'I thought you were deid'."
From BBC ● Nov. 21, 2024
And no one would need concern themselves about the aliens popping by and finding that all the names on the lunar message were long deid.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 13, 2013
When ye're deid ye're deid, and that's a' aboot it.
From A Dominie in Doubt by Alexander Sutherland Neill
The prentit stanes that mark the deid, Wi’ lengthened lip, the sarious read; Syne wag a moraleesin’ heid, An’ then an’ there Their hirplin’ practice an’ their creed Try hard to square.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 14 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
"For ony malledy ze ken, Except puir love, or than stark deid, Help may be had frae hands of men, Thorow medicines to mak remeid."
From The Proverbs of Scotland by Alexander Hislop
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