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to death
Idioms and Phrases
To an extreme or intolerable degree, as in I am tired to death of these fund-raising phone calls , or That movie just thrilled me to death . This hyperbolic phrase is used as an intensifier. Also see sick and tired ; tired out . [c. 1300]Example Sentences
Reno, wrote "Say No to Death's Dominion"; contrary to the title, he argues that death should be embraced, and that those who save lives through medical science are in league with Satan.
That, of course, was the point — if someone was useful enough to work but not worthy of normal life, they were worked to death.
A man has been charged with murder after a 16-year-old boy was stabbed to death in Huddersfield.
A murder investigation has been launched after a 16-year-old boy was stabbed to death in Huddersfield.
Militiamen have been accused of running detention centres where migrants are beaten to death or starved, and the Libyan coastguard is accused of sometimes filming people in the sea rather than rescuing them.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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