DRIVE A NAIL IN ONE'S COFFIN

Meaning of DRIVE A NAIL IN ONE'S COFFIN in English

do something that hastens one's death

Explanatory English dictionary bed edition. Толковый словарь английского языка Редакция bed. 2012

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Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
COFFIN — sarco
English interlingue dictionary
COFFIN — kabaong;lungon
English-Visayan vocabulary
ONE — I. |wən adjective Etymology: Middle English oon, on, from Old English ān; akin to Old High German ein one, Old …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
NAIL — I. ˈnāl, esp before pause or consonant ˈnāəl noun ( -s ) Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English, from Old …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
IN — I. (|)in, ən; usu ə n after t, d, s, or z as in “split in two”, often ə m …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
DRIVE
Webster's New International English Dictionary
COFFIN — I. ˈkȯfə̇n also ˈkäf- noun ( -s ) Etymology: Middle English, basket, receptacle, from Middle French cofin, from Latin cophinus …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
COFFIN — (v. t.) To inclose in, or as in, a coffin.
Английский словарь Webster
COFFIN — (n.) The hollow crust or hoof of a horse's foot, below the coronet, in which is the coffin bone.
Английский словарь Webster
COFFIN — ( v. t. ) To inclose in, or as in, a coffin.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
COFFIN — ( n. ) The hollow crust or hoof of a horse's foot, below the coronet, in which is the coffin …
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
ONE — /wun/ , adj. 1. being or amounting to a single unit or individual or entire thing, item, or object rather …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
NAIL — — nailless , adj. — naillike , adj. /nayl/ , n. 1. a slender, typically rod-shaped rigid piece of metal, …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
DRIVE
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
COFFIN — — coffinless , adj. /kaw"fin, kof"in/ , n. 1. the box or case in which the body of a dead …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
ONE — I. ˈwən adjective Etymology: Middle English on, an, from Old English ān; akin to Old High German ein one, Latin …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
NAIL — I. ˈnāl noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English nægl; akin to Old High German nagal nail, fingernail, Latin unguis …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
DRIVE — I. ˈdrīv verb ( drove ˈdrōv ; driv·en ˈdri-vən ; driv·ing ˈdrī-viŋ) Etymology: Middle English, from Old English drīfan; akin …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
COFFIN — I. ˈkȯ-fən noun Etymology: Middle English, basket, receptacle, from Anglo-French, from Latin cophinus Date: 1525 : a box or chest …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
NAIL — noun to spike, as a cannon. 2. nail ·noun to stud or boss with nails, or as with nails. 3. …
Webster English vocab
DRIVE — vi to distrain for rent. 2. drive ·p.p. driven. 3. drive ·add. ·noun a tamping iron. 4. drive ·vt to …
Webster English vocab
COFFIN — noun a basket. 2. coffin ·vt to inclose in, or as in, a coffin. 3. coffin ·noun a conical paper …
Webster English vocab
NAIL — [nail] n [ME, fr. OE naegl; akin to OHG nagal nail, fingernail, L unguis fingernail, toenail, claw, Gk onyx] (bef. …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
COFFIN — [cof.fin] n [ME, basket, receptacle, fr. MF cofin, fr. L cophinus] (1525): a box or chest for burying a corpse …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
NAIL
Britannica English vocabulary
COFFIN — the receptacle in which a corpse is confined. The Greeks and Romans disposed of their dead both by burial and …
Britannica English vocabulary
NAIL — nail, Nail BrE AmE neɪ ə l ▷ nailed neɪ ə ld ▷ nailing ˈneɪ ə l ɪŋ ▷ nails …
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
COFFIN — coffin, C~ BrE AmE ˈkɒf ɪn § - ə n AmE \ ˈkɔːf ə n ˈkɑːf- ▷ coffin|s z
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
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Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
NAIL
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
DRIVE — / draɪv; NAmE / verb , noun ■ verb ( drove / drəʊv; NAmE droʊv/, driven / ˈdrɪvn; NAmE /) …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
ONE — I. one 1 S1 W1 /wʌn/ BrE AmE number 1 . the number 1: They had one daughter. one hundred …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
NAIL — I. nail 1 S3 /neɪl/ BrE AmE noun [countable] [ Language: Old English ; Origin: nægl ] 1 . a …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
DRIVE
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
COFFIN — cof ‧ fin /ˈkɒfən, ˈkɒfɪn $ ˈkɒː-, ˈkɑː-/ BrE AmE noun [countable] [ Date: 1300-1400 ; Language: Old French ; …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
ONE — adj., n., & pron. --adj. 1 single and integral in number. 2 (with a noun implied) a single person or …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
NAIL — n. & v. --n. 1 a small usu. sharpened metal spike with a broadened flat head, driven in with a …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
COFFIN — n. & v. --n. 1 a long narrow usu. wooden box in which a corpse is buried or cremated. 2 …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
ONE — adj., n., & pron. adj. 1 single and integral in number. 2 (with a noun implied) a single person or …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
NAIL — n. & v. n. 1 a small usu. sharpened metal spike with a broadened flat head, driven in with a …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
COFFIN — n. & v. n. 1 a long narrow usu. wooden box in which a corpse is buried or cremated. 2 …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
ONE — adj., n., & pron. --adj. 1. single and integral in number. 2 (with a noun implied) a single person or …
Oxford English vocab
NAIL — n. & v. --n. 1. a small usu. sharpened metal spike with a broadened flat head, driven in with a …
Oxford English vocab
COFFIN — n. & v. --n. 1. a long narrow usu. wooden box in which a corpse is buried or cremated. 2 …
Oxford English vocab
ONE — ( ones) Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English. 1. One is the number …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
NAIL — ( nails, nailing, nailed) 1. A nail is a thin piece of metal with one pointed end and one flat …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
DRIVE
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
COFFIN — ( coffins) 1. A coffin is a box in which a dead body is buried or cremated. N-COUNT 2. If …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
ONE
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
NAIL — I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a nail bomb (= containing nails ) as tough as nails/as tough as old …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
DRIVE
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
COFFIN — noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE wooden ▪ Forty-two extended inhumations, several with wooden coffins , were examined, 14 in …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
NAIL — noun 1 on the fingers/toes ⇨ See also ↑ fingernail , ↑ toenail ADJECTIVE ▪ long , short ▪ sharp …
Oxford Collocations English Dictionary
COFFIN — noun (esp. BrE ) ⇨ See also ↑ casket ADJECTIVE ▪ wooden ▪ flag-draped ▪ the flag-draped ~s of soldiers …
Oxford Collocations English Dictionary
DRIVE — INDEX: 1. to drive a car, train, or other vehicle 2. to go somewhere in a car or other vehicle …
Longman Activator English vocab
COFFIN — n. casket, pall, (pine) box; sarcophagus The coffin was slowly lowered into the grave
Oxford Thesaurus English vocab
ONE — pronoun 1 BAD : Fluency in English is one of the best qualifications you can have. GOOD : Fluency in …
Longman Common Errors English vocabulary
ONE
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
NAIL — 1. сущ. 1) ноготь to cut, pare, trim one's nails ≈ стричь ногти to do, manicure one's nails ≈ делать …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
DRIVE — 1. сущ. 1) а) езда full drive ≈ езда на полной скорости test drive ≈ пробная поездка (право покупателя при …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
COFFIN — 1. сущ. 1) гроб Syn : grave 2) непогасший продолговатый кусочек угля, с треском выскочивший из печки From the fire …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
ONE
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
NAIL — nail.ogg 1. neıl n 1. 1> ноготь to do one's nails - делать маникюр 2> коготь 2. 1> гвоздь; нагель …
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей

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