stone-dead
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of 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
The messengers came at full speed, and found the guards apprehensive of nothing; but on opening the doors, they saw her stone-dead, lying upon a bed of gold, set out in all her royal ornaments.
From Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans by Arthur Hugh Clough
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