death sentence

noun

Definitions

  1. A decree that someone be put to death as a punishment for a crime

    A decree that someone be put to death as a punishment for a crime; a sentence of execution.

    • Comrades, here and now I pronounce the death sentence upon Snowball.
  2. Anything that spells death.

    • Having the Huntington's gene is a death sentence.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

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

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