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
He pu'd a turnip, an' was juist gaun to whang off the shaw, when doon he drappit in the middle o' the drill as deid as Abel.'
From Betty Grier by Waugh, Joseph Laing
A bitter, thrawn auld maid 282 that’s fomented trouble in the country before I was born, and will be doing it still, I daur say, when I’m deid!
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XIX (of 25) The Ebb-Tide; Weir of Hermiston by Stevenson, Robert Louis
When day was deid I met my Dear On fair Kirkconnel Lea, Though fause een spied, I knew no fear, His love was over me.
From The Span o' Life A Tale of Louisbourg & Quebec by McIlwraith, Jean Newton
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