stone-dead
- adjective
- /stoʊn dɛd/
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muerto
- All stone dead.
Examples
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But when we got back, the guy was gone and Tommy was stone dead.
Fiction book (1999) -
And by the way, he'd be stone dead in the cage, anyway. The time passed like that, flashed by really quickly.
Fiction book (1995) -
Your third shot was not a blank as you had supposed, but a live bullet, that killed Mr Tindle stone dead!
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He checked the man's pulse quickly, but it was obvious from the head wound that he was stone dead.
Fiction book (1996) -
You’ll be busy at work and you'll look round at the line and you'll see some of them have just dropped stone dead.
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With poker or tongs, gold-headed walking cane or whatever was handy, the guest in the house, the unfortunate Christian believer come in from the cold, was bashed in the head and brought down on the dining room floor, cutlery falling all about him, stone dead.
Fiction book (1995) -
When they found the old dog in the backyard, it was stone-dead and lifeless.
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After the earthquake, many animals were discovered stone dead under the rubble.
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The once vibrant garden now lay stone dead, with wilted plants and no signs of life.
Synonyms
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1.0
Not alive or working, for example a battery with no power
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3.4
Not moving and showing no signs of people or animals
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3.5
A person who is not alive, used in formal or respectful speech
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5.1
Completely without life or totally not working
Not living any more, for example a person or animal
Antonyms
How Dead
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word stone-dead puts stone (a hard, lifeless rock) together with dead ('not alive') to give the strong image of something as lifeless as a stone. That's why stone-dead means completely dead or without any power.