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Definition
- to die
- to the death
- extremely
- to death
- dead
Compounds (6)
corpse; meaning component (to squat, person, human body, corpses ...); dead body; remains; radical (Kang Xi 44)
Related words (204)
to give up; to admit failure; to drop the matter; to reconcile oneself to loss; to have no more illusions about
mythological figure (such as the Grim Reaper) in charge of taking the souls of those who die; (fig.) death
deferred death sentence; commuted death sentence with forced labor and judicial review after two years (PRC) (legal)
half dead (of torment, hunger, tiredness etc); (tired) to death; (terrified) out of one's wits; (beaten) to within an inch of one's life; (knock) the daylights out of sb
ghost of a person who died by hanging; hanged person; (coll.) inchworm; hangman (word game)
to grieve for the sick and the dying; to show great concern for people's suffering
one's utmost; (to fight or work) desperately hard; to put up a life or death struggle; at all costs
death wish (translated from English); Death wish, movie series with Charles Bronson is translated as 猛龍怪客
(lit.) to be born, to grow old, to get sick and to die; (fig.) the fate of humankind (i.e. mortality)
to place sb on field of death; to confront with mortal danger; to give sb no way out; with one's back to the wall; looking death in the eye; part of idiom 置之死地而後生|置之死地而后生
nothing sadder than a withered heart (idiom attributed to Confucius by Zhuangzi 莊子); no greater sorrow than a heart that never rejoices; the worst sorrow is not as bad as an uncaring heart; nothing is more wretched than apathy
place sb on a field of death and he will fight to live (idiom based on Sunzi's "The Art of War" 孫子兵法); to fight desperately when confronting mortal danger; (fig.) to find a way out of an impasse
a centipede dies but never falls down; old institutions die hard
Idioms (45)
dead but will not close the eyes (idiom); to die with a remaining grievance; also written 死不瞑目
to hover between life and death (idiom); to suffer terribly; within an inch of one's life
death cannot wipe out the crimes (idiom); dreadful crimes that rankled even after the perpetrator is dead
(lit.) ashes burn once more (idiom); fig. sb lost returns to have influence; sth malevolent returns to haunt one
dead but showing no signs of rigor mortis; to die hard (idiom); to die yet not be vanquished (idiom)
mortal danger, escape alive (idiom); a narrow escape; to survive by the skin of one's teeth
(lit.) to give medicine to a dead horse (idiom); (fig.) to keep trying everything in a desperate situation
ten thousand deaths will not prevent me (idiom); ready to risk life and limb to help out
(lit.) you die, I live (idiom); irreconcilable adversaries; two parties cannot coexist
(lit.) if the rabbit dies, the fox grieves (idiom); fig. to have sympathy with a like-minded person in distress
(lit.) to boil the hound once it caught the rabbit (idiom); (fig.) to get rid of sb once he has served his purpose
from the cradle to the grave (idiom); to go through fire and water; brave; willing to risk life and limb
(lit.) to praise the dead and revile the living; (fig.) to live in the past (idiom)
beat the snake to death or it will cause endless calamity (idiom); nip the problem in the bud
to follow the path to one's own doom (idiom); to bring about one's own destruction
bravery with no thought of personal safety (idiom); risking life and limb; undaunted by perils
to view death as a return home; to not be afraid of dying; to face death with equanimity (idiom)
greedy for life, afraid of death (idiom); craven and cowardly; clinging abjectly to life; only interested in saving one's neck
as if drunk or entranced (idiom); leading a befuddled existence; in a drunken stupor
to whom the deer falls (idiom); the one to emerge victor (i.e. to seize the empire); prize winner; champion
(lit.) the emperor is not worried, but his eunuchs are worried to death (idiom); (fig.) the observers are more anxious than the person involved
don't insist on only taking one road to Rome (idiom); there's more than one way to skin a cat
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