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stone-dead

stone-dead is the alternative form of stone dead.

Meaning of stone dead

Adjective

stone dead

  1. (idiomatic) Utterly dead.
    • 'I congratulate you; it was a lovely shot, and mine were vile.' We got out of the boat and ran to the buck, which was shot through the spine and stone dead.1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC

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What is stone-dead the alternative form of?
Stone-dead is the alternative form of stone dead.

Words near stone-dead in the dictionary

  1. stone-cold foxes
  2. stone-cold sober
  3. Stone-cum-Ebony
  4. stone-curlew
  5. stone-curlews
  6. stone-dead
  7. stone-deaf
  8. stone-faced
  9. stone-fence
  10. stone-fences
  11. stone-fish

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