dead to the world

Definitions

1. 1

   Sound asleep.

   • However, he slept right through the night, and was still dead to the world when I slipped out.
2. 2

   Unconscious.

   • Simon hit him from behind on the back of his head. The size of his punch was enough to knock even the toughest senseless. Simon's victim fell to the deck. . . . There he lay, dead to the world.
3. 3

   Without social relationships or communication

   Without social relationships or communication; without emotional or tangible bonds to others.

   • [D]id you think that a being so sequestered as I am was already dead to the world, even while he was walking upon its surface?
   • During two long weeks Tom lay a prisoner, dead to the world and its happenings.

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