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
Aatami	AH:-tah-mee	Finnish
Yngve	-	Swedish, Norwegian, Danish
Pierson	['piəsn]
Yasamin	-	Persian
Esquivel	[eskivəl]
Erland	ER-lahnd (Swedish)	Swedish, Danish