--- title: "How to pronounce \"clinically dead\" in English | SayItVid" description: "Learn how to say \"clinically dead\" correctly. Watch real-life video examples and master your English pronunciation with SayItVid." image: "https://img.youtube.com/vi/0TqbOT1Bdm4/hqdefault.jpg" url: "https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/clinically-dead" --- # How to pronounce "clinically dead" in English ## Pronunciation & Phonetics - **IPA**: `/klɪnɪkællɪdɪːd/` - **Syllable Breakdown**: **cli·ni·cal·ly·dead** ## Real-Life Native Speaker Examples (9 Video Clips) Listen to native speakers pronounce "clinically dead" in real conversation: ### Example 1 > "Um, I am getting all emotional, well anyway. My heart didn't respond to the defibrillator and defibrillator worked; my heart was that weak and didn't respond and I cardiac arrested, I was like clinically dead for like five and a half minutes. So um, mum and dad are in wrecks and it is a relief that I didn't have a clue what was going on." - **Watch at 19:11**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TqbOT1Bdm4&t=1151s) ### Example 2 > "resuscitate her and they couldn't. Dr. Eben Alexander, who wrote Proof of Heaven. He is a doctor. He was an atheist. He was in a coma with bacterial meningitis and was pronounced clinically dead. And then basically came back and said that he saw heaven. And he now believes in a God that is benign, that cares about the future of humanity. So, for me as a doctor," - **Watch at 35:08**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfEQRqFo2bI&t=2108s) ### Example 3 > "Talking about your chest." Then I said, "Oh my gosh, it's it's a 13 now." And then as soon as I said 13, that's when I had my cardiac arrest and was clinically dead. I actually died for 10 minutes. So, I had no heart rate, no pulse, no watching on my brain for a whole 10 minutes." - **Watch at 0:23**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LjEBRQkR54&t=23s) ### Example 4 > ""Oh my gosh, it's it's a 13 now." And then as soon as I said 13, that's when I had my cardiac arrest and was clinically dead. I don't remember anything, and I get asked this question a lot, especially like by my Christians or people who" - **Watch at 4:49**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LjEBRQkR54&t=289s) ### Example 5 *Accent: UK* > "arrest there was no reflex in the brain stem he was clinically dead as far as the doctors around him were" - **Watch at 22:11**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APOT0GqtJXI&t=1331s) ### Example 6 > "brains, but how limited are they in what we can perceive and explain? You use the phrase the other side a lot in the book and you know someone was clinically dead, they glimpse the other side and then they came back. I mean on some level this is just the only language we have to describe such things." - **Watch at 34:30**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EQurBp0CMtE&t=2070s) ### Example 7 > "But we still relied on that heart-lung definition. Without signs of either, you're considered clinically dead. In the last hundred years, that started to change." - **Watch at 3:26**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZuDiPv-aajI&t=206s) ### Example 8 > "Nobody could figure out what was wrong with me, which is always comforting when you're clinically dead." - **Watch at 6:18**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYJizul-76M&t=378s) ### Example 9 > "people away away to the left the corner flag I see for the last 10 minutes a nurse has what I think been giving a Kiss of Life to one uh one young fan who looks in deep distress alongside me I've got Dr Glenn Phillips there was one chap I went to he was clinically dead he had no heartbeat he was sosed and we resuscitated him for about 10 minutes and we were just about to give up when we got his heart beating but I don't know what the state of his uh cerebral" - **Watch at 1:10**: [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diavhiUso5E&t=70s) ## How to Pronounce "clinically dead" - **Syllables**: cli · ni · cal · ly · dead - **IPA**: `/klɪnɪkællɪdɪːd/` - **Listen for**: the stressed syllable in the clips above — notice how surrounding sounds blend in natural speech. ## Related Pronunciations [clinically](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/clinically), [dead](https://sayitvid.com/pronounce/dead) ## Frequently Asked Questions ### How do you pronounce “clinically dead”? “clinically dead” is pronounced /klɪnɪkællɪdɪːd/ (cli · ni · cal · ly · dead). Listen to the native-speaker clips above to hear it in real conversation. ### How many syllables are in “clinically dead”? “clinically dead” has 5 syllables: cli · ni · cal · ly · dead. ### How can I hear “clinically dead” used in real sentences? This page has 9 real-world video examples of “clinically dead” with synchronized subtitles. 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