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stops dead

stops dead is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 stops dead

What is stops dead the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Stops dead is the third-person singular simple present indicative of stop dead.

Words near stops dead in the dictionary

  1. stops and smells the flowers
  2. stops and smells the roses
  3. stops at nothing
  4. stops by
  5. stops cold
  6. stops dead
  7. stops down
  8. stops in
  9. stops into
  10. stops it
  11. stops lead

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