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dead to the world 1. sound asleep. After all that exercise, he's dead to the world. He's dead to the world, and I can't rouse him. 2. . intoxicated. Six beers and he was dead to the world. By midnight almost everybody at the party was dead to the world. dead to the world sleeping to the greatest degree possible Guy was curled up on the sofa, dead to the world. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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During two long weeks Tom lay a prisoner, dead to the world and its happenings. There were some broken men among these debtors who had been in jail so long, and were so miserable and destitute of friends, so dead to the world, and utterly forgotten and uncared for, that they implored their jailers not to set them free, and to send them, if need were, to some other place of custody. An' a better man than them, that I love, layin' there dead to the world with a skinned face on the mat. |
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