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STONE-DEAD
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Dictionary entry overview: What does stone-dead mean?
• STONE-DEAD (adjective)
The adjective STONE-DEAD has 1 sense:
1. as lifeless as a stone
Familiarity information: STONE-DEAD used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
As lifeless as a stone
Similar:
dead (no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life)
Context examples
The sister lay back stone-dead in her chair, while the two brothers sat on each side of her laughing, shouting, and singing, the senses stricken clean out of them.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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