"stop dead" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "stops dead",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stopping dead",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stopped dead",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stopped dead",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "stop dead (third-person singular simple present stops dead, present participle stopping dead, simple past and past participle stopped dead)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1995, Richard Rhodes, “Scorpions in a Bottle”, in Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb, New York: Simon & Schuster, page 575",
          "text": "At the height of the crisis, according to a retired SAC wing commander, SAC airborne alert bombers deliberately flew past their turnaround points toward Soviet airspace, an unambiguous threat which Soviet radar operators would certainly have recognized and reported. \"I knew what my target was,\" the SAC general adds: \"Leningrad.\" The bombers only turned around when the Soviet freighters carrying missiles to Cuba stopped dead in the Atlantic.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To stop suddenly."
      ],
      "id": "en-stop_dead-en-verb-HmUr1ugx",
      "links": [
        [
          "suddenly",
          "suddenly"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive, idiomatic) To stop suddenly."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "intransitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "En-au-stop dead.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/e9/En-au-stop_dead.ogg/En-au-stop_dead.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e9/En-au-stop_dead.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "stop dead"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "stops dead",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stopping dead",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stopped dead",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stopped dead",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "*"
      },
      "expansion": "stop dead (third-person singular simple present stops dead, present participle stopping dead, simple past and past participle stopped dead)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English idioms",
        "English intransitive verbs",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with audio links",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1995, Richard Rhodes, “Scorpions in a Bottle”, in Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb, New York: Simon & Schuster, page 575",
          "text": "At the height of the crisis, according to a retired SAC wing commander, SAC airborne alert bombers deliberately flew past their turnaround points toward Soviet airspace, an unambiguous threat which Soviet radar operators would certainly have recognized and reported. \"I knew what my target was,\" the SAC general adds: \"Leningrad.\" The bombers only turned around when the Soviet freighters carrying missiles to Cuba stopped dead in the Atlantic.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To stop suddenly."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "suddenly",
          "suddenly"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive, idiomatic) To stop suddenly."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "intransitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "En-au-stop dead.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/e9/En-au-stop_dead.ogg/En-au-stop_dead.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e9/En-au-stop_dead.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "stop dead"
}