Usually means: Cease movement or action abruptly.
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General (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. stop dead: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. stop dead: Vocabulary.com
  3. stop dead: Wiktionary
  4. stop dead: Dictionary.com
  5. stop dead: Rhymezone
  6. stop dead: FreeDictionary.org
  7. stop dead: Mnemonic Dictionary
  8. stop dead: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. stop dead: Legal dictionary
  2. stop dead: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. stop dead: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. stop dead: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. stop dead: Idioms

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verb:  (intransitive, idiomatic) To stop suddenly.

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