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wakes up dead

wakes up dead is the third-person singular simple present indicative of wake up dead.

Meaning of wake up dead

Verb

wake up dead (third-person singular simple present wakes up dead, present participle waking up dead, simple past woke up dead, past participle woken up dead)

  1. To die, particularly in one's sleep.
    • The most maddening aspect of time, of course, is how it passes -sneaky fast - moment into moment into millennium, each day a dollop of eternity until, finally, one morning you wake up dead.1988, Mike Nichols, Life and Other Ways to Kill Time, page 206

Questions about wakes up dead

What is wakes up dead the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Wakes up dead is the third-person singular simple present indicative of wake up dead.

Words near wakes up dead in the dictionary

  1. Wakes Colne
  2. wakes up
  3. wakes up and smells the ashes
  4. wakes up and smells the coffee
  5. wakes up and smells the roses
  6. wakes up dead
  7. wakes up on the wrong side of bed
  8. wakes up one day
  9. wakeskate
  10. wakeskater
  11. wakeskaters

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