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deathbed
[deth-bed]
noun
the bed on which a person dies.
The museum contains Lincoln's deathbed.
adjective
of, pertaining to, said, or done during the last few hours of a person's life.
a deathbed confession.
deathbed
/ ˈɛθˌɛ /
noun
the bed in which a person is about to die
( as modifier )
a deathbed conversion
about to die
Word History and Origins
Idioms and Phrases
on one's deathbed, in the last few hours before death.
Example Sentences
I would often fantasize about lying on my deathbed with the love of my life, hand in hand, like Noah and Allie.
English writer and women’s rights activist Mary Wollstonecraft was so obsessed with her best friend that after her friend died, Wollstonecraft wore a mourning ring made of her friend’s hair until her own deathbed.
"Ilene has always said that she will be iterating ideas for the 'L Word' on her deathbed."
For some, procrastination until the precipice of death inevitably led to a rather stressful process of deathbed absolution.
“Michael never did any of this, and I’m going to take that to my deathbed.”
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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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