"wake up dead" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "wakes up dead",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "waking up dead",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "woke up dead",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "woken up dead",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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        "1": "wake<,,woke,woken> up dead",
        "head": "wake up dead"
      },
      "expansion": "wake up dead (third-person singular simple present wakes up dead, present participle waking up dead, simple past woke up dead, past participle woken up dead)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1988, Mike Nichols, Life and Other Ways to Kill Time, page 206:",
          "text": "The most maddening aspect of time, of course, is how it passes -sneaky fast - moment into moment into millennium, each day a dollop of eternity until, finally, one morning you wake up dead.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1999, Dean Barrett, Hangman's Point, section 495:",
          "text": "But if tomorrow morning you wake up dead, don't blame me!",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, John Orsi, From An Ill Mind, page 43:",
          "text": "Find strength, before your^([sic]) broken down from thoughts that burn away the mind. One day you'll wake up dead.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Don Pendleton, Extraction, page 70:",
          "text": "All the sentiment in the world won't be much of a comfort when people like Hal Brognola find out what you've been doing—and they will find out, you know that—and you wake up dead one morning.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018, Amie Kaufman, Meagan Spooner, Unearthed, page 12:",
          "text": "Cross her and you'll wake up dead once you get back to the station.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To die, particularly in one's sleep."
      ],
      "id": "en-wake_up_dead-en-verb-QdIKa06U"
    }
  ],
  "word": "wake up dead"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "wakes up dead",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "waking up dead",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "woke up dead",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "woken up dead",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
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        "1": "wake<,,woke,woken> up dead",
        "head": "wake up dead"
      },
      "expansion": "wake up dead (third-person singular simple present wakes up dead, present participle waking up dead, simple past woke up dead, past participle woken up dead)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1988, Mike Nichols, Life and Other Ways to Kill Time, page 206:",
          "text": "The most maddening aspect of time, of course, is how it passes -sneaky fast - moment into moment into millennium, each day a dollop of eternity until, finally, one morning you wake up dead.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1999, Dean Barrett, Hangman's Point, section 495:",
          "text": "But if tomorrow morning you wake up dead, don't blame me!",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, John Orsi, From An Ill Mind, page 43:",
          "text": "Find strength, before your^([sic]) broken down from thoughts that burn away the mind. One day you'll wake up dead.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, Don Pendleton, Extraction, page 70:",
          "text": "All the sentiment in the world won't be much of a comfort when people like Hal Brognola find out what you've been doing—and they will find out, you know that—and you wake up dead one morning.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018, Amie Kaufman, Meagan Spooner, Unearthed, page 12:",
          "text": "Cross her and you'll wake up dead once you get back to the station.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To die, particularly in one's sleep."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "wake up dead"
}