last gasp

Definitions

1. 1

   The final gasp or breath a person takes before death.

   • Now the murdered man is drawing his last gasp.
2. 2

   The point of death, or the last period of one's life.

   • Such as feare God shall be strengthened to stand against all assaults of Satan; yea they shal continue and stand stedfast vnto the end, euen to the last gasp.
   • […] but so much rain fell therewith, as refreshed Aurelius his Forces, that were at the last gasp for thirst:
   • […] I have got an old aunt of my own, who has been puffing and blowing as if she was at her last gasp ever since I can remember;
3. 3

   The point at which something disappears or is destroyed

   The point at which something disappears or is destroyed; a last-gasp moment, attempt, etc.

   • Me thinks, (my Lord) you are grown something solemn on the sudden; since your Monopolies and Patents, which made your purse swell like a wet spunge, have been reduc’d to th’ last gasp.
   • ‘What about Greg?’ It was his conscience letting out a last gasp.

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