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cheat death

verb

Etymology

Compare French trompe-la-mort.

  1. derived from trompe-la-mort

Definitions

  1. To survive a situation which would be expected to result in death.

    • From Olar, Han Shepard, They say you're alive. That you cheated death. That sending you this isn't just a pointless exercise as part of my therapy. They say a lot of things.
    • A Holocaust survivor who cheated death in eight Nazi concentration camps during World War Two has recalled his experiences, 70 years since the liberation of Auschwitz.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for cheat death. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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