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词汇 death
释义 death
noun[ C or U ]
uk /deθ/ us /deθ/
B1
the end of life: 死,死亡
The disease causes thousands of deaths a year.这种疾病每年导致数千人死亡。
Do you believe in life after death?你相信死后还有来世吗?
He never got over the death of his daughter.他一直没有从女儿去世的阴影中走出来。
death threats死亡威胁
 bored, frightened, etc. to death
B2
extremely bored, frightened, etc.: 无聊(吓等)得要死的
She's frightened to death of snakes.
 to death
C2
until you die: 至死,直到死亡
The animals burned to death in the barn.那些牲口在牲口棚里被活活烧死了。
 the death of someone/something
the cause of the end of life, or the end or destruction of something: …的死因;…的末路,…的毁灭
The failure of the family business was the death of him.家族企业的落败把他送上了末路。
She reacted surprisingly calmly to the news of his death.听到他去世的消息,她的反应出奇的平静。
Following her son's death, she became quiet and withdrawn and rarely went out.她儿子死后,她变得沉默寡言,并且很少外出。
He was jailed for 15 years for stabbing his wife to death.他因捅死妻子被判入狱15年。
He gave a slight shudder as he considered how near he had come to death.
The coroner recorded a verdict of accidental death.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Death and dying
all-cause mortality
antemortem
bereave
bite
bleed out
coroner
death toll
ghost
give up the ghostidiom
have one foot in the graveidiom
macabre
perish
posthumously
raise
raise someone from the deadidiom
roadkill
self-extinction
sepulchrally
snuff itidiom
toll

Idioms


be at death's door
be in at the death
catch your death of cold
look/feel like death warmed up
be the death of someone

death | American Dictionary


death
noun[ C/U ]
us/deθ/
the end of life:
[ C ]a sudden/natural death
[ U ]I hope she finds the peace in death she never found in life.
[ U ]Fire ants stung a woman to death (= caused her to die).

Idiom


to death

Examples of death


death
On average, comfort care plans were put in place 9 days prior to death.
After death, family members reported the actual family involvement in health care decisions near death.
The straightforward thing to say, in both cases, is that removing the life support caused the patient's death.
My death is the event that is supposed to make us morally concerned in the first place.
His reputation suffered after his death (his style did not develop during the last few decades of his life) and has still not been rehabilitated.
The parents were transferred to new bean plants to avoid overcrowding and early death of plants and aphids.
The accumulation of polymers within the secretory pathway leads to hepatocyte death and, ultimately, to liver cirrhosis.
Characteristics of effective home-visiting programs include multidimensional assessment, many follow-up visits, and targeting people at lower risk of death.
Moreover, the death rate was only high amongst the older age groups.
For example, during a 500-year period, a population of around 5,000 people will 'produce' perhaps some 70,000 deaths.
Work on the project paid poorly and involved high risks : permanent disability and death were a constant specter.
The manner of a person's death will often lead to a reconsideration of a life - who and what they were.
Of the eight deaths observed on study, six were in the placebo group and two were in the creatine group.
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Collocations withdeath


death

These are words often used in combination with death.

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angel of death
I hope the door will remain ajar until it closes with the angel of death and the monster of aggression outside the threshold for ever.
From the
Hansard archive

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cardiac death
This rare type of coronary anomaly has been regarded as having little clinical significance, but it can lead to sudden cardiac death under physical exertion.
cause death
These other chromosomal anomalies occur less frequently and often cause death in infancy.
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