If there is only a small amount of rot, the dead material can be cut away.

VOA: special.2010.06.08

If this latest claim that the two remaining guards are also dead, that would leave only the plight of the man they were protecting unknown.

VOA: standard.2009.07.29

North Korea has declared those talks "dead" several times this year,and says it is willing to deal only with the United States as a fellow nuclear weapons nation.

VOA: standard.2009.09.06