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
Maxim	mahk-SEEM (Russian)	Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian
Teigue	-	Irish
Amel (1)	-	Bosnian
Tania	['tæniə]
Karcsi	-	Hungarian
Mattanyahu	-	Biblical Hebrew