kill someone dead

verb

kill someone dead

verb

Etymology Possibly derived from the phrase shoot someone dead.

1

US, Dialectal To murder someone and ensure that they are dead.

You don't understand, do you Hassan? It's not the Saudis who own all this oil of Ghawar. It's the Americans who own it. And if you try to take it away from them, they will kill you dead like they killed Saddam Hussein dead.2005, George P. Matheos, Mirages of the Rub Al-Khali:

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