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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.
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It would, as one leading Labour figure put it, kill the SNP “stone dead.”
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I sent the boy running to where he was, and he picked up Mr. Rabbit stone dead.
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"Stone dead—bullet plum through his head," said the agonized Shorty.
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Close to the water's edge two horses lay stretched upon the ground, stone dead.
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A flash and report followed; and when the smoke cleared away, the seducer was lying on the floor, stone dead.
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And the youngest, he never was found; and the others was stone dead ashore, nigh on to the Foreland.
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