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stone dead

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stone dead
Rur. dead; unquestionably dead; long dead. The cat was stone dead and stiff as a board by the time we got to him. Old Tom is stone dead and in the ground.
See also: dead, stone


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He stretched himself out under the bench, did not move a limb, and behaved as if he were stone dead.
The hog, hit by the electric ball, fell stone dead.
I HAVE heerd say, mim, that the illnesses of some ladies was all pretensions, and that they could faint away, stone dead, whenever they had the inclinations so to do.
 
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