(idiomatic) One who is in serious danger or trouble. / (idiomatic) A project that is doomed to failure from the start.

Former glacier ice that is no longer connected to the active glacier, therefore not moving, and becoming covered with sediments.

present participle of dead stick

(simile) Entirely, unquestionably or certainly dead.

(colloquial) An empty beer bottle.

To lie very still, like a corpse. / To act as though defeated while awaiting a chance to attack.

(of a patient) Found to be dead upon arriving at hospital. / Found dead at a scene, upon the arrival of an emergency medical service (EMS) or the police. / (slang) Of a new item: received broken.

(nautical) Stationary with respect to the current, having no means of propulsion. / (idiomatic, figuratively) Doomed; unable to succeed.

simple past tense and past participle of leave for dead

(transitive) To abandon a person or other living creature that is injured or otherwise incapacitated, assuming that the death of the one abandoned will soon follow.