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stone-dead

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stone-dead
adj
completely lifeless
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.stone-dead - as lifeless as a stone
dead - no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life; "the nerve is dead"; "a dead pallor"; "he was marked as a dead man by the assassin"
Translations
stone-dead [ˈstəʊnˈded] ADJtieso
it killed the idea stone-deaddio completamente al traste con la idea
stone-dead [ˌstəʊnˈdɛd] adjmorto/a stecchito/a
stone-dead [ˌstəʊnˈdɛd] adjmorto/a stecchito/a


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Pickwick, under the impression that she had fainted away stone-dead with fright, ventured to peep out again, she was gazing pensively on the fire as before.
(the fact is so very curious that I must needs mention it), immediately I have a vision or image of an elderly man, of remarkably stern countenance, sitting in an oaken elbow-chair, dead, stone-dead, with an ugly flow of blood upon his shirt-bosom
He said he was going to prove that Uncle Silas was SEEN to kill Jubiter Dunlap by two good witnesses, and done it deliberate, and SAID he was going to kill him the very minute he hit him with the club; and they seen him hide Jubiter in the bushes, and they seen that Jubiter was stone-dead.
 
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