stop dead

• stop dead: 立ち止まる

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• Malfoy was only a few feet away and he had stopped dead to listen.
  （マルフォイがすぐそばで立ち止まり、聞き耳を立てていたのだ。）
  J. K. Rawling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Bloomsbury, p. 171


• Neville let out a little moan and Malfoy stopped dead in his tracks.
  （ネヴィルが小さく声を漏らし、マルフォイも思わず立ち止まった。）
  J. K. Rawling, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, Bloomsbury, p. 182


• a high-pitched laugh issuing from a front porch stopped me dead.
  （一軒の家の玄関先から甲高い笑い声がして、俺は立ち止まった。）
  James Ellroy, The Black Dahlia, The Mysterious Press, p. 5