单词 | stone-dead |
释义 | > as lemmasstone-dead stone-dead adj. ΚΠ c1290 St. Agnes 76 in S. Eng. Leg. 183 He fel a-doun stan-ded. 1531 W. Tyndale Expos. 1 John (1537) 55 We were stone dead and wythout lyfe or power to do or consent to good. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. xi. sig. Z5 As when Ioues harnesse-bearing Bird from hye Stoupes at a flying heron..The stone-dead quarrey falls. 1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 22 He dropt down stone-dead. 1888 J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. III. lxxxix. 217 Keep up the fight until it [sc. the power of corruption] is stone dead. < as lemmas |
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