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kill someone dead

kill someone dead verb: to murder someone and ensure that they are dead.

Verb

kill someone dead (third-person singular simple present kills someone dead, present participle killing someone dead, simple past and past participle killed someone dead)

  1. (US, dialectal) To murder someone and ensure that they are dead.
    • You don't understand, do you Hassan? It's not the Saudis who own all this oil of Ghawar. It's the Americans who own it. And if you try to take it away from them, they will kill you dead like they killed Saddam Hussein dead.2005, George P. Matheos, Mirages of the Rub Al-Khali

Forms of kill someone dead

third-person singular presentkills someone dead
present participlekilling someone dead
past participlekilled someone dead
pastkilled someone dead

Origin of kill someone dead

Possibly derived from the phrase shoot someone dead.

Questions about kill someone dead

What does kill someone dead mean?
Kill someone dead means to murder someone and ensure that they are dead.
What part of speech is kill someone dead?
Kill someone dead is a verb.
What is the past tense of kill someone dead?
The past tense of kill someone dead is killed someone dead.

Words near kill someone dead in the dictionary

  1. kill screens
  2. kill shelter
  3. kill shelters
  4. kill shot
  5. kill shots
  6. kill someone dead
  7. kill steal
  8. kill stealer
  9. kill stealers
  10. kill stealing
  11. kill steals

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