[Sửa] Sự chết; cái chết

natural death

sự chết tự nhiên

a violent death

cái chết bất đắc kỳ tử

to be at death's door

sắp chết, kề miệng lỗ

to be in the jaws of death

trong tay thần chết

wounded to death

bị tử thương

tired to death

mệt chết được

to put to death

giết

to catch one's death of cold

cảm lạnh chết

this will be the death of me

cái đó làm tôi chết mất

death penalty

án tử hình

death anniversary

kỷ niệm ngày mất, ngày giỗ

death certificate

giấy khai tử

death row

khu xà lim tử tù

[Sửa] Sự tiêu tan, sự tan vỡ, sự kết liễu, sự chấm dứt

the death of one's hopes

sự tiêu tan hy vọng

the death of one's plans

sự tan vỡ kế hoạch

[Sửa] to be death on...

(thông tục) thạo bắn (thú, chim...); thạo, giỏi, cừ (về cái gì...)

Yêu thiết tha, yêu say đắm, yêu mê mệt (cái gì...)

[Sửa] to be in at the death

được mục kích cái chết của con cáo (săn cáo)

(nghĩa bóng) được mục kích sự sụp đổ của một công cuộc

[Sửa] better a glorious death than a shameful life

(tục ngữ) thà chết vinh còn hơn sống nhục

[Sửa] to cling (hold on) like grim death

bám không rời, bám chặt

Bám một cách tuyệt vọng

[Sửa] death is the grand leveller

(tục ngữ) chết thì ai cũng như ai

[Sửa] death pays all debts

[Sửa] death quits all scores

[Sửa] death squares all accounts

chết là hết nợ

[Sửa] to meet one's death

Xem meet

[Sửa] to snatch someone from the jaws of death

Xem snatch

[Sửa] sudden death

cái chết bất thình lình

(từ Mỹ,nghĩa Mỹ), (từ lóng) rượu rất nặng; uýtky rẻ tiền

[Sửa] to tickle to death

làm chết cười

[Sửa] to the death

cho đến chết, cho đến hơi thở cuối cùng

to fight to the death for communism

chiến đấu đến hơi thở cuối cùng cho chủ nghĩa cộng sản

[Sửa] sự chết, tử vong

[Sửa] sự chết

[Sửa] N.

[Sửa] Demise, decease, passing, dying, end: She was overcomewith grief at the news of his death.

[Sửa] End, termination,cessation, expiration, expiry: Nobody mourned the death of thebill in the lower house.

[Sửa] End, finish, termination;extinction, destruction, extermination, annihilation,eradication, obliteration, eradication, extirpation,liquidation, ruin, downfall, undoing: The invasion marked thedeath of the Roman Empire.

[Sửa] N.

[Sửa] The final cessation of vital functions in an organism; theending of life.

[Sửa] The event that terminates life.

[Sửa] A the factor process of being killed or killing (stone to death; fight tothe death). b the fact or state of being dead (eyes closed indeath; their deaths caused rioting).

[Sửa] A the destruction orpermanent cessation of something (was the death of our hopes).b colloq. something terrible or appalling.

[Sửa] (usu. Death) apersonification of death, esp. as a destructive power, usu.represented by a skeleton.

[Sửa] A lack of religious faith orspiritual life.

[Sửa] Witness the (esp. sudden)ending of an enterprise etc. be the death of 1 cause the deathof.

[Sửa] Be very harmful to. catch one's death colloq. catch aserious chill etc. death adder any of various venomous snakesof the genus Acanthopis esp. A. antarcticus of Australia.death cap a poisonous toadstool, Amanita phalloides. death cella prison cell for a person condemned to death. deathcertificate an official statement of the cause and date andplace of a person's death. death duty Brit. hist. a taxlevied on property after the owner's death. °Replaced in 1975by capital transfer tax and in 1986 by inheritance tax. deathgrant Brit. a State grant towards funeral expenses.death-knell 1 the tolling of a bell to mark a person's death.

[Sửa] An event that heralds the end or destruction of something.death-mask a cast taken of a dead person's face. death penaltypunishment by being put to death. death rate the number ofdeaths per thousand of population per year. death-rattle agurgling sound sometimes heard in a dying person's throat.death-roll 1 those killed in an accident, battle, etc.

[Sửa] A listof these. death row US a prison block or section for prisonerssentenced to death. death's head a human skull as an emblem ofmortality. death's head moth a large dark hawk moth, Acherontiaatropos, with skull-like markings on the back of the thorax.death squad an armed paramilitary group formed to kill politicalenemies etc. death tax US a tax on property payable on theowner's death. death-toll the number of people killed in anaccident, battle, etc. death-trap colloq. a dangerous orunhealthy building, vehicle, etc. death-warrant 1 an order forthe execution of a condemned person.

[Sửa] Anything that causes theend of an established practice etc. death-watch (in fulldeath-watch beetle) a small beetle (Xestobium rufovillosum)which makes a sound like a watch ticking, once supposed toportend death, and whose larva bores in old wood. death-wishPsychol. a desire (usu. unconscious) for the death of oneselfor another. do to death 1 kill.

[Sửa] Overdo. fate worse thandeath colloq. a disastrous misfortune or experience. likedeath warmed up sl. very tired or ill. put to death kill orcause to be killed. to death to the utmost, extremely (bored todeath; worked to death).

[Sửa] Deathless adj. deathlessness n.deathlike adj. [OE death f. Gmc: rel. to DIE(1)]