out cold

out cold

English

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Adjective

out cold (not comparable)

  2. Soundly unconscious, either because asleep or because otherwise knocked out.
    Synonym: down for the count
    Hypernyms: out (any degree, from lightly and transiently to deeply and soundly), unconscious, knocked out
    Hyponym: sound asleep
    He was growing unsteady as the blows landed, and that final right hook finished him — he was out cold.

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