stop dead

To immediately or suddenly come to a complete halt. I don't know what happened. The engine was running fine a second ago, but then it just stopped dead! Both of us stopped dead when we heard the gunshot in the distance.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Shay (2)	-	Hebrew
Suri	-	Yiddish
Karoline	kah-ro-LEE-nə (German)	German, Danish, Norwegian
InÁCio	-	Portuguese
Yura	-	Russian, Ukrainian
Klara	KLAH-rah (German, Russian, Polish)	Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Icelandic, German, Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, Slovene, Croatian