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slow death

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meanings of slowand death


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slow
adjective
uk /sləʊ/ us /sloʊ/
moving, happening, or doing something without ...
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death
noun[C or U]
uk /deθ/ us /deθ/
the end ...
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Examples of slow death


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He died a very slowdeath.
Our concerns are about the future and the slowdeath of the adult education service because it would not disappear but would gradually deteriorate.
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It may be better that they should suffer sudden death rather than this slowdeath of living on hope.
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If the substance were labelled explicitly, this industry would die a slowdeath.
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This would spell a slowdeath for the passenger services.
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Some face closure or slowdeath; others will have to curtail their activities severely.
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They will also have seen the slowdeath which, frankly, those conditions involve.
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What we have just heard is a prologue to the slowdeath of fundholding in the national health service.
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Our traditions die hard, but in that slowdeath our whole economic outlook is suffering.
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Unless we can find an imaginative solution that will keep it going, it will die a slowdeath.
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Such a slowdeath is absolutely impossible in coursing, in my observation.
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Its structure has been copied all over the world, and its slowdeath by a thousand cuts would not be welcomed.
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The miners say that if their industry is to be sentenced to death they would rather have a quick than a slowdeath.
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But what we have already done in this world is to sentence to mutation and slowdeath thousands upon thousands of children in future generations.
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If we are to retain public confidence it must adapt or die a slowdeath.
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It will cause the slowdeath by starvation of millions of people and millions more will wander the world looking for a home.
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The consequence of this indecision is slowdeath of what should be the heart of a community.
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