Usually means: Completely dead, without any doubt.
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  1. stone-dead: Merriam-Webster
  2. stone-dead, stone-dead: Collins English Dictionary
  3. stone-dead: Vocabulary.com
  4. stone-dead: Wordnik
  5. stone-dead: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. stone-dead: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. stone-dead: Dictionary.com
  8. Stone-dead: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. stone-dead: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. stone-dead: Rhymezone
  11. Stone-dead: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. stone-dead: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. stone-dead: FreeDictionary.org
  14. stone-dead: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. stone-dead: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. stone-dead: Wiktionary

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▸ adjective:  Alternative form of stone dead [(idiomatic) Utterly dead.]

Similar:
dead, dead-hearted, stone-hearted, dead-born, half-dead, stone-hard, dead-on, brain dead, stony-hearted, deadverbal, more...

Opposite:
alive, living, animated, awake, conscious

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Similar:
dead, dead-hearted, stone-hearted, dead-born, half-dead, stone-hard, dead-on, brain dead, stony-hearted, deadverbal, more...

Opposite:
alive, living, animated, awake, conscious



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