taken for dead

appearing to be dead; assumed to be dead. I was so ill with the flu that I was almost taken for dead. The accident victims were so seriously injured that they were taken for dead at first.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Valentin	VAH-len-teen (German), vah-lyen-TEEN (Russian), vah-leen-TEEN (Russian)	French, Romanian, German, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Czech, Russian, Bulgarian, Slovene, Croatian,
Adolphus	-	Ancient Germanic (Latinized)
Glendower	-	Welsh
Joe	JO	English
Benedito	-	Portuguese
Arron	AR-ən, ER-ən	English