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deader

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1. deader - Noun

2. deader - Adjective

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deader

(figuratively, humorous) comparative form of dead: more dead; or at least more evidently dead.
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.

deader (plural deaders)

(informal, chiefly humorous) One who is deceased, or will shortly become so.
I could tell he was a deader by the way his eyes were glazed over; there was no life left in those eyes.

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Nothing could be older than the daily news, nothing deader than yesterday's newspaper. Edward Abbey

I cross the place where my heart used to be and hope to be even deader than I am now. Derek Landy

There simply must be a corpse in a detective novel, and the deader the corpse the better. S. S. Van Dine

A proper school should teach nothing but bookkeeping, agriculture, geometry, dead languages made deader by leaving out all the amusing literature, and the Hebrew Bible as interpreted by men superbly trained to ignore contradictions, men technically called "Fundamentalists." Sinclair Lewis

He had been looking like a dead fish. He now looked like a deader fish, one of last year's, cast up on some lonely beach and left there at the mercy of the wind and tides. P. G. Wodehouse

I'm Irish!...When I feel well I feel better than anyone, when I am in pain I yell at the top of my lungs, and when I am dead I shall be deader than anybody. Morgan Llywelyn

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