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STONE-COLD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does stone-cold mean? 

STONE-COLD (adjective)
  The adjective STONE-COLD has 1 sense:

1. completely coldplay

  Familiarity information: STONE-COLD used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


STONE-COLD (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Completely cold

Context example:

by the time he got back to his coffee it was stone-cold

Similar:

cold (having a low or inadequate temperature or feeling a sensation of coldness or having been made cold by e.g. ice or refrigeration)


 Context examples 


Jane! recommenced he, with a gentleness that broke me down with grief, and turned me stone-cold with ominous terror—for this still voice was the pant of a lion rising—Jane, do you mean to go one way in the world, and to let me go another?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)



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