STONE-DEAD


Meaning of STONE-DEAD in English

If you kill something such as an idea or emotion ~, you completely destroy it.

The prospect of having to pay a graduate tax until retirement would kill the students’ enthusiasm stone dead.

PHRASE: V inflects emphasis

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