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STONE-COLD
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Dictionary entry overview: What does stone-cold mean?
• STONE-COLD (adjective)
The adjective STONE-COLD has 1 sense:
1. completely cold
Familiarity information: STONE-COLD used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Completely cold
Context example:
by the time he got back to his coffee it was stone-cold
Similar:
cold (having a low or inadequate temperature or feeling a sensation of coldness or having been made cold by e.g. ice or refrigeration)
Context examples
Jane! recommenced he, with a gentleness that broke me down with grief, and turned me stone-cold with ominous terror—for this still voice was the pant of a lion rising—Jane, do you mean to go one way in the world, and to let me go another?
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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