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stone-dead
[ stohn-ded ]
adjective
- undeniably dead; completely lifeless.
stone-dead
adjective
- completely lifeless
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Word History and Origins
Origin of stone-dead1
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Example Sentences
Sinbad opens the bottle and out comes a 300-foot-tall genie who will kill poor Sinbad stone dead.
It 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.
"Stone dead—bullet plum through his head," said the agonized Shorty.
Close to the water's edge two horses lay stretched upon the ground, stone dead.
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.
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