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stone-dead

American  
[stohn-ded] / ˈstoʊnˈdɛd /

adjective

  1. undeniably dead; completely lifeless.


stone-dead British  

adjective

  1. completely lifeless

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of stone-dead

1250–1300; Middle English (north) standed. See stone, dead


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Atkinson had Nathan Smith play on, got Matt Henry fending to gully then trapped Tim Southee stone-dead leg before.

From BBC ● Dec. 7, 2024

It's the one genre I can think of where bands can undergo immense lineup changes that would kill a mainstream rock band stone-dead.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 8, 2012

Remember the "Jeremy Clarkson effect", when the middle-aged denim wearer killed jeans stone-dead, from a fashion point of view, for several years in the 1990s?

From The Guardian ● Mar. 17, 2010

The idea that one tradition was killed stone-dead in 1907, when Picasso painted Les Demoiselles d'Avignon, and that another was born from the act, is nonsense.

From Time Magazine Archive

Too late a bit we were, but we found him, just stone-dead like, and brought him round.

From Somehow Good by William Frend De Morgan

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