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Drop dead   /drɑp dɛd/   Listen
Drop dead

verb
1.
Pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life.  Synonyms: buy the farm, cash in one's chips, choke, conk, croak, decease, die, exit, expire, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass, pass away, perish, pop off, snuff it.  "The children perished in the fire" , "The patient went peacefully" , "The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102"






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"Drop dead" Quotes from Famous Books



... Cora to a room and exchanged the modest hat and dress for a showy hat and elaborate silk dress; and when I saw her it almost broke my heart. I said to her: "Oh, Cora, all my work to save you is in vain." I had rather have seen her drop dead, and I grieved all the way home. From Attica she went to Wellington, instead of Olathe, Kansas, where she was to enter this home. James Dobson was sheriff of Barber County and his brother kept a saloon in Kiowa, the first saloon I ...
— The Use and Need of the Life of Carry A. Nation • Carry A. Nation



Words linked to "Drop dead" :   buy it, go bad, turn, stifle, give out, suffocate, fall, pip out, starve, change state, conk, expire, be born, abort, give way, drown, famish, yield, break, break down, predecease, fail, conk out, asphyxiate, succumb



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