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wake up dead en · VERB
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To die, particularly in one's sleep.
Cross her and you'll wake up dead once you get back to the station.
2018, Amie Kaufman, Meagan Spooner, Unearthed, page 12:But if tomorrow morning you wake up dead, don't blame me!
1999, Dean Barrett, Hangman's Point, section 495: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.
2013, Don Pendleton, Extraction, page 70:Find strength, before your^([sic]) broken down from thoughts that burn away the mind. One day you'll wake up dead.
2011, John Orsi, From An Ill Mind, page 43: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.
1988, Mike Nichols, Life and Other Ways to Kill Time, page 206:
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