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death

/dɛθ/ sustantivo A2

En español: Muerte, muerte, éxitus, la muerte

  1. The cessation of life and all associated processes; the end of an organism's existence as an entity independent from its environment and its return to an inert, non-living state. (countable, uncountable) · My grandfather died/met a violent death, which saddened the whole family.
  2. Execution (in the judicial sense). (countable, uncountable) · The serial killer was sentenced to death.
  3. The personification of death as a (usually male) hooded figure with a scythe; the Grim Reaper. (countable, uncountable) · When death walked in, a chill spread through the room.
  4. The collapse or end of something. (countable, uncountable) · England scored a goal at the death to even the score at one all.
  5. A cause of great stress, exhaustion, embarrassment, or another negative condition (for someone). (countable, figuratively, uncountable) · This bake sale is going to be the death of me!
  6. Spiritual lifelessness. (countable, figuratively, uncountable)

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“’Tis true, madame,” answered he, “that my father was a Girondin, but he was not among the number of those who voted for the king’s death; he was an equal sufferer with yourself during the Reign of Terror, and had well-nigh lost his head on the same scaffold on which your father perished.”
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 45 · C1
that while I purposed to hunt another, I am myself fallen unawares into the snares of death.”
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 77 · B2
I have already recorded sentence of death, five or six times, against the movers of political conspiracies, and who can say how many daggers may be ready sharpened, and only waiting a favorable opportunity to be buried in my heart?”
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 49 · C1
No sooner had Villefort left the salon, than he assumed the grave air of a man who holds the balance of life and death in his hands.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 57 · C1

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