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stopped dead

stopped dead is the simple past and past participle of stop dead.

Meaning of stop dead

Verb

stop dead (third-person singular simple present stops dead, present participle stopping dead, simple past and past participle stopped dead)

  1. (idiomatic, intransitive) To stop suddenly.
    • At the height of the crisis, according to a retired SAC wing commander, SAC airborne alert bombers deliberately flew past their turnaround points toward Soviet airspace, an unambiguous threat which Soviet radar operators would certainly have recognized and reported. "I knew what my target was," the...1995, Richard Rhodes, “Scorpions in a Bottle”, in Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb, New York: Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, page 575

Questions about stopped dead

What is stopped dead the simple past and past participle of?
Stopped dead is the simple past and past participle of stop dead.

Words near stopped dead in the dictionary

  1. stopped and smelt the roses
  2. stopped at nothing
  3. stopped by
  4. stopped clock illusion
  5. stopped cold
  6. stopped dead
  7. stopped down
  8. stopped in
  9. stopped into
  10. stopped it
  11. stopped lead

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