stock-still in English

adverb

1

without any movement; completely still.

he stood stock-still

synonyms: motionless, completely still, unmoving, not moving a muscle, immobile, like a statue/stone, rooted to the spot, transfixed, paralyzed, petrified, static, stationary

adjective

• motionless, completely still, unmoving, not moving a muscle, immobile, like a statue/stone, rooted to the spot, transfixed, paralyzed, petrified, static, stationary
• rooted, frozen

adverb

• still

Use "stock-still" in a sentence

1. She stood stock still, hoping he would drift off to sleep once more without realising she was not there.

2. He pricked his ears, pawed the ground, snorted, Champed and foamed, and finally stood stock still, trembling like a leaf.

3. As the ground drifted up he saw the barbarian standing stock still, chest heaving, arms hanging loosely by his sides.

4. 26 And even though the little fellow stood stock still, his shadow heaved and twisted as some living creature writhing in unimaginable torment.

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6. Here is the experience of an Orcadian in the Canongate of Edinburgh: "Ae wife luckid oot at a muckle apstair window; the meenit the Laird saw a heed i' a window atween him an' de licht, he stend stock still, an' says he tae me—'Po' me sal, there's a muckle Bauckie!' (cf