Definitions for dead-air

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Dead-Air is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 116 anagrams from letters in dead-air (-aaddeir).

Definitions for dead-air

noun

  1. the loss or suspension of the video or audio signal during a television or radio transmission.

Origin of dead-air

First recorded in 1940-45

Examples for dead-air

The last crack of a triphammer, peckering at a giant pile of iron down the112 block, dies out on the dead air.

Was it a mere thrill of the dead air, too slight to be heard, but quivering in every spiritual sense?

It was a dark day; the clouds hung low, and the dull rumble of the sea came through the dead air.

For the first time since the forest fires had begun to smoulder, the dead air took a sense of motion.

Taffy shrunk back, as a draught of the close, dead air struck his nostrils.

The last crack of a triphammer, peckering at a giant pile of iron down the block, dies out on the dead air.

Again the man sniffed the dead air and, swinging the rifle into the crook of his elbow, continued toward the grub-shack.

Within the half-hour the night had grown oppressively hot and the dead air was like that of an oven.

A piercing chill grew in the dead air; the silence was terrifying.

All was dark and still inside, and a gust of dead air struck him in the face.

Word Value for dead-air
Scrable

6

Words with friends

6

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