(noun) (with "the", a demonstrative, or a possessive) Those who have died. Example: "Have respect for the dead."
"There is no such thing as ‘too insane’ unless others turn up dead due to your actions."
"Men are born soft and supple; dead they are stiff and hard. Plants are born tender and pliant; dead, they are brittle and dry."
"Either this man is dead or my watch has stopped."
"Paying alimony is like feeding hay to a dead horse."
"For the anointed, traditions are likely to be seen as the dead hand of the past, relics of a less enlightened age, and not as the distilled experience of millions who faced similar human vicissitudes before."
"From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate."
"To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth."
"I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it."
"It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest."
"Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it."
"The dead should not rule the living."
"Only the dead have seen the end of war."