deads

Verb

dead (third-person singular simple present deads, present participle deading, simple past and past participle deaded)

1. (transitive) To prevent by disabling; to stop.
   • “What a man should do, when finds his natural impotency dead him in spiritual works”1826, The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Edward Reynolds, Lord Bishop of Norwich, collected by Edward Reynolds, Benedict Riveley, and Alexander Chalmers. pp. 227. London: B. Holdsworth.
2. (transitive) To make dead; to deaden; to deprive of life, force, or vigour.
   • Heaven's stern decree, / With many an ill, hath numb'd and deaded me.1614–1615, Homer, “(please specify the book number)”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615...
3. (UK, US, slang, transitive) To kill.
   • I shoulda deaded it from genesis instead of hittin' the Guinnesses2004, “Guinnesses”, in Mm..Food, performed by MF Doom ft. Angelika & 4-IZE
4. (broadly, slang, transitive, African-American Vernacular) To discontinue or put an end to (something).
   • "I thought I told you to shut up," said Jesus. "I don't be laying up with chickenheads, so you need to dead that shit before you piss me the fuck off."2005, Black Artemis, Picture Me Rollin', New York, N.Y.: New American Library, →ISBN, page 269

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