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 Translation for 'dead man' from English to French
NOUN   a dead man | dead men
mort {m}dead man
Partial Matches
crevé {adj} {past-p} [mort] [fam.]dead
morts {m.pl}dead
mort {adj}dead
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chim.
huile {f} lourde
dead oil
au cordeau {adj}dead straight
méd.pharm.
vaccin {m} inactivé
dead vaccine
trafic
impasse {f} [cul-de-sac]
dead end
tomber en arrêtto stop dead
s'arrêter netto stop dead
tourisme
morte-saison {f}
dead season
comm.
rossignol {m} [fam.] [marchandise invendable]
dead article
comm.
rossignol {m} [fam.] [marchandise invendable]
dead wood
morinom {m} [dead name]dead name
naut.
calme {m} plat
dead calm
ivre mort {adj}dead drunk
lettre {f} mortedead letter
matériel
acier {m} calmé
dead steel
armes
tué par balle {adj} {past-p}
shot dead
absolument sûr {adj}dead certain
méd.
en état de coma dépassé {adj}
brain-dead
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Usage Examples English
  • The Kaddish was not always recited by mourners and instead became a prayer for mourners sometime between the 12th and 13th centuries when it started to be associated with a medieval legend about Rabbi Akiva who meets a dead man seeking redemption in the afterlife.
  • Their last meeting was in 1658 at Hampton Court, though they could not speak for long or meet again because of the Protector's worsening illness – Fox even wrote that "he looked like a dead man".
  • Keyes finds a witness who says the man on the train was younger than the dead man.
  • From 1868, public executions were discontinued and executions were carried out on gallows inside Newgate, initially using the same mobile gallows in the Chapel Yard, but later in a shed built near the same spot. Dead Man's Walk was a long stone-flagged passageway, partly open to the sky and roofed with iron mesh (thus also known as Birdcage Walk).
  • The first two episodes were adapted from "Maigret Sets a Trap" and "Maigret's Dead Man".

  • In "The Circus of Dr. Lao" (1935) by Charles G. Finney, Apollonius appears in the employ of Dr. Lao's circus and brings a dead man back to life.
  • In "Corporate Warriors", the fourth episode of the second season of the hit American crime drama "CSI: NY", Durán is mentioned by the medical examiner while discussing a dead man found to have bone grafts put in his hands to boost his punching power.
  • He appeared again as Poirot in three television films: "Thirteen at Dinner" (1985), "Dead Man's Folly" (1986), and "Murder in Three Acts" (1986).
  • and features prominently in Anthony Burgess's "A Dead Man in Deptford".
  • Charles Nicholl examined (and rejected) such theories in "The Reckoning: The Murder of Christopher Marlowe" (1992), which was used as a source by Anthony Burgess for his novel "A Dead Man in Deptford" (1993).

  • He had even remarked about his own health to the cardinals, saying that they would be electing "a dead man".
  • In his 1637 book "Dioptrique" French philosopher, mathematician and scientist René Descartes suggested placing an eye of a recently dead man (or if a dead man was unavailable, the eye of an ox) into an opening in a darkened room and scraping away the flesh at the back until one could see the inverted image formed on the retina.
  • As a combat veteran, Harvey is recruited for the maiden voyage of "Little David", manning a dead man's switch, with strict orders to blow up the ship if it is in danger of capture.
  • In one scene, a Xenomorph bursts out of the chest of a dead man, with blood squirting out under high pressure assisted by explosive squibs.
  • In what could be considered the only case of The Replacements somewhat receiving any official recording industry accolades, the band's biographist Bob Mehr received the Best Album Notes trophy at the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards in 2021 for his liner notes on the 2019 box set "Dead Man's Pop", which is in itself an anniversary reissue of their 1989 album "Don't Tell a Soul".

  • He has also said that he thought the second film ("Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest") may have 'borrowed' from the "Monkey Island" series.
  • Their other charting top 10 singles were "Drag City" (1963), "Dead Man's Curve" (1964; inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2008), and "The Little Old Lady from Pasadena" (1964).
  • Young and directed by John Badham); and "The Dead Man" (adapted and directed by Douglas Heyes).
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