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
Hro&Eth;Gar	-	Anglo-Saxon
Gaspare	-	Italian
Ljubica	LYOO-bee-tsah (Serbian, Croatian)	Serbian, Croatian, Macedonian, Slovene
Matvey	maht-VYAY	Russian
Mckayla	mə-KAY-lə	English (Modern)
Quim	-	Portuguese, Catalan