dead pan's Usage Examples:

He struggled for a dead pan but couldn"t hold it; the devilish twinkle of his eye and the quirk of.

gangster tells a man on the other end of a phone conversation to "give it a dead pan" (with the emphasis on "pan"), so that the man does not inadvertently alert.

Synonyms:

pulseless, departed, exsanguinous, late, fallen, d.o.a., doomed, exsanguine, nonviable, stone-dead, murdered, assassinated, inanimate, slain, executed, at rest, breathless, deceased, lifeless, brain dead, gone, stillborn, life, asleep, exanimate, vitality, deathly, bloodless, animation, cold, living, deathlike, aliveness, at peace, defunct,

Antonyms:

alive, early, middle, punctual, up,