Definitions for stone-dead

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Spelling: [stohn-ded]
IPA: /ˈstoʊnˈdɛd/

Stone-Dead is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 379 anagrams from letters in stone-dead (-addeenost).

Definitions for stone-dead

adjective

  1. undeniably dead; completely lifeless.

Origin of stone-dead

1250-1300; Middle English (north) standed. See stone, dead

Examples for stone-dead

There is something almost heroic in the idea of firing off guns for a man who has been stone-dead for about four centuries.

Too late a bit we were, but we found him, just stone-dead like, and brought him round.

The first and readiest is that of which it has been emphatically said, stone-dead hath no fellow.

He was stone-dead when I turned him over; and judging by the terrible emaciation of his body he had died of protracted starvation.

Though apparently unhurt, one of their company may turn over, stone-dead, in the distance.

And there, surely enough, we found her, stone-dead by the side of the skeleton.

The first victim had been knocked down, stone-dead, when absolutely sound and strong.

His forehead rested on the table, his arms hung at his sides; he was stone-dead!

At the bottom of the wet mess of hair and red and flesh was old Shep, stone-dead.

The bear was tottering now, and another blow on the back of the head from the Indian behind brought him down, stone-dead.

Word Value for stone-dead
Scrable

5

Words with friends

6

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