dead or alive
Bounty poster condition
Dead or alive means in either condition—whether the person is living or has been killed.
The phrase appears most famously on wanted posters offering bounties for fugitives: Wanted: dead or alive.
It emphasizes that capture matters more than the target's survival.
The phrase also describes determined pursuit regardless of outcome: I'll find him, dead or alive.
wanted
Longed for
reward · poster · manhunt · sheriff · marshal · posse · apprehend · criminal · justice · hunt
unharmed
Not injured
preserved · unbroken · sound · unscathed · untouched · complete · pristine · recovered · surviving · in one piece
- Either/Oryes or no, true or false, on or off, in or out, up or down
- Bushismsstrategery, nucular, internets, fuzzy math, decider
- Old Westcowboy, cowboys, cowgirl, sheriff, sheriffs
- Manhuntfugitive, manhunt, wanted poster, most wanted, pursuit
dead or alivealive and well
Existing and healthy
safe and sound · intact · living · breathing · in custody
dead, alive, deadly, deadness, deaden, deadened, deadening, died, live