stone-dead
undeniably dead; completely lifeless.
Origin of stone-dead
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How to use stone-dead in a sentence
Sinbad opens the bottle and out comes a 300-foot-tall genie who will kill poor Sinbad stone dead.
Only Six Books: Excerpt From Jeanette Winterson’s New Memoir | Jeanette Winterson | March 7, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTIt would, as one leading Labour figure put it, kill the SNP “stone dead.”
I sent the boy running to where he was, and he picked up Mr. Rabbit stone dead.
The Red Cow and Her Friends | Peter McArthur"Stone dead—bullet plum through his head," said the agonized Shorty.
Si Klegg, Book 2 (of 6) | John McElroyClose to the water's edge two horses lay stretched upon the ground, stone dead.
Warrior Gap | Charles King
A flash and report followed; and when the smoke cleared away, the seducer was lying on the floor, stone dead.
And the youngest, he never was found; and the others was stone dead ashore, nigh on to the Foreland.
Somehow Good | William de Morgan
British Dictionary definitions for stone-dead
completely lifeless
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