Collocations for dead - adj.

be, lie
His wife lay dead beside him.

look | sham
The animal will sometimes escape danger by shamming dead.

drop
He just dropped dead one day in his garden.

shoot sb, strike sb
Gunmen shot dead a policeman. | She had been struck dead by lightning.

find sb
The woman was found dead with a rope round her neck.

declare sb, pronounce sb
She was declared dead on arrival at the hospital.

quite
I''m afraid he''s quite dead.

dead and buried
(figurative) In ten years he''ll be dead and buried as a politician.

dead and gone
That won''t happen until long after I''m dead and gone.

dead or alive
We didn''t know whether the fish was dead or alive.

more dead than alive
Poor child, she looks more dead than alive.