die roaring

verb

Definitions

  1. To die in agony, especially as divine punishment for a wicked life.

    • May you die roaring like Doran's bull!
    • "Did you ever see a fellow hanged?" "I saw dozens of them," he assured me solemnly, "and they all died roaring."
    • The genial, white-haired Malachy also enthralled the audience with grim jokes about how Henry VIII and Randolph Churchill died roaring from syphillis.

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