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at death's door

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Definitions

  1. About to die

    About to die; in a life-threatening state of health.

    • The minstrel woman who left the Castle yesterday has spread the report everywhere, that the Duke of Rothsay is murdered, or at death's door.
    • One of my Polynesian sailors lay at death's door with blackwater fever.
    • And the "events" were not all on the board. It may help the reader to know that K. O. Mott-Smith was literally at death's door in mid-game. His double survival prompted him to send us the game and comments.

  2. Alternative spelling of at death's door.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA