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  1. brain-deadadjective

    Having an irreversible loss of brain function and cessation of brain activity.

  2. brain-deadadjective

    Having no useful thoughts; stupid; ditzy.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of brain-dead in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of brain-dead in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of brain-dead in a Sentence

  1. Natalie Wood:

    We gave Evan the last rites and then we turned off her life support, she was declared brain dead…The hospital kept giving me a sliver of hope. I knew it was wrong, but I wanted it to be true. So I hung on for a week. It’s rough. I feel like I’ve been very, very beaten. I hurt from head to toe with the pain of losing my daughter.

  2. Randall Kallinen:

    98 pound special needs inmate brain dead after attack by 240 pound repeat violent offender with knife at understaffed Harris County jail, we shall get justice.

  3. Rick Langhart:

    They had determined that Erika had no brain activity and that because of her heart attacks they basically told us that she was brain dead and that's it.

  4. Bill Hader:

    I’m so brain dead after (recording) because you are just yelling for five hours, the same line over and over again, they did a great job I thought of putting this story together with the game. A lot of these animated movies, they take years and years and years but these guys are so good. It’s not like we show up, and there’s the ‘Angry Birds’ script….

  5. Bryan Boutain:

    Hunter's condition deteriorated throughout the night and he was declared brain dead this morning, it is a deeply emotional time for all us. We ask for privacy and prayers as we remember our beloved Hunter.

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