cut dead

Why should she have been there talking to the very man whom she had a week ago cut dead in the village?

Rarely will a beaver cut dead wood, and only in emergencies will he cut a pine or a spruce.

It cut dead at the heart of his ambition; it would be a shock as great as the discovery of Countess Ellenburg's ambitions.

Anyone who's capable of bringing this disgrace upon us deserves to be sent to Coventry, and cut dead!

When a man's been cut dead during the whole term, he can't be looked on as one of the house very well.