noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a cycle of poverty/activity/birth and death etc
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the cycle of violence between the two countries
a death certificate
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According to his death certificate, he died aged 44.
a death sentence (= a punishment of death )
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Death sentences were handed down to eight of the accused.
a death threat (= a threat to kill someone )
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Scientists involved in the research have received death threats.
a mortal/fatal/death blow (= causing something to end )
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When he quit it dealt a mortal blow to the show.
a violent death
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No French king died a violent death during this period.
accidental death
battered to death
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He was battered to death .
be bored to tears/to death (= extremely bored )
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Rob was bored to tears trailing around the shops.
be burned to death
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Anyone inside the truck would have been burned to death.
Black Death, the
bled to death
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Tragically, she bled to death .
bludgeoned to death
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He was bludgeoned to death with a hammer.
bore sb to death/tears (= make them very bored )
brush with death
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A brush with death can make you appreciate life more.
carries...the death sentence (= is punished by )
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Premeditated murder carries the death sentence .
catch your death (of cold) British English spoken (= get a very bad cold )
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Don’t stand out in the rain. You’ll catch your death.
cause death
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The famine caused the death of up to 400,000 people.
certain death
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If they stayed in the war zone, they faced almost certain death.
choked to death
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Six people choked to death on the fumes.
clubbed to death
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baby seals being clubbed to death
cot death
crib death
crushed to death
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Two people were crushed to death in the rush to escape.
death blow
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His decision to leave the show has delivered a death blow to the series.
death camp
death certificate
death duties
death knell
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The loss of Georgia would sound the death knell of Republican hopes.
death mask
death penalty
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Three Britons are facing the death penalty for spying.
death rate
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childhood death rates
death rattle
death row
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a murderer on death row
death sentence
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He received a death sentence .
death squad
death throes
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The peace pact seems to be in its death throes .
death toll rose
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As the unrest continued, the death toll rose .
death toll stands at
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The official death toll stands at 53.
death toll
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As the unrest continued, the death toll rose .
death toll
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The death toll has risen to 83.
death trap
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A car with tires in this condition is simply a death trap.
death warrant
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By indulging in casual sex, many teenagers could be signing their own death warrants .
death wish
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Before I did the jump, people would ask if I had a death wish .
death's head
delivered a death blow to
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His decision to leave the show has delivered a death blow to the series.
die a natural death (= of natural causes, rather than being killed )
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The coroner concluded that Wilkins had died a natural death.
die a sudden/violent/slow etc death
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At the end of the play, the main character dies a violent death.
frighten sb to death/frighten the life out of sb (= make someone feel extremely afraid )
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He drove at a speed which frightened Lara to death.
frightened to death (= very frightened )
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To tell the truth, I was frightened to death .
froze to death
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I nearly froze to death watching that football match.
hacked to death (= killed using large knives )
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Both men had been hacked to death .
had a death wish
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Before I did the jump, people would ask if I had a death wish .
imminent danger/threat/death/disaster etc
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He was in imminent danger of dying.
impending danger/doom/death/disaster etc
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She had a sense of impending disaster.
in its death throes
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The peace pact seems to be in its death throes .
infant deaths
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The number of infant deaths has fallen significantly.
knifed to death
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She had been knifed to death .
lingering death
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Mr Wilkins suffered a lingering death .
mourn sb’s death/loss/passing
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She still mourns the death of her husband.
on the brink of death/disaster/war etc
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In October 1962 the world seemed on the brink of nuclear war.
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The company had huge debts and was on the brink of collapse.
passed...death sentence on
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In 1987, the government passed a death sentence on the river by granting permission for the new dam.
plunged to...deaths
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Both the climbers had plunged to their deaths .
received...death sentence
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He received a death sentence .
register a birth/death/marriage
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The baby’s birth was registered this morning.
risk defeat/death etc
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He would prefer not to risk another embarrassing defeat.
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Some people are prepared to risk imprisonment for what they believe.
scared to death (= extremely scared )
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He looked scared to death.
signing...own death warrants
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By indulging in casual sex, many teenagers could be signing their own death warrants .
(sound/strike/toll) the death knell for/of sth
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The loss of Georgia would sound the death knell of Republican hopes.
stabbed to death
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He was stabbed to death in a fight.
starve to death (= die from lack of food )
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They’ll either die from the cold or starve to death .
sudden death
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a sudden death play-off
Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
the cause of death
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A snake bite was the cause of death.
the death penalty (= the punishment of being killed )
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If convicted, they face the death penalty.
the death/mortality rate
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The death rate among the homeless is three times higher than the rest of the population.
tragic death
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The parents were not to blame for the tragic death of their son.
trample sb to death (= kill someone by stepping heavily on them )
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Several people were nearly trampled to death in the rush to get out.
untimely death
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the untimely death of a popular local man
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
accidental
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On 4 December 1985 the inquest returned a verdict of accidental death .
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Such reports are routine in the case of accidental death , he said.
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The coroner recorded verdicts of accidental death .
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A verdict of accidental death was recorded at an inquest last week.
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It seemed to be pretty much an open and shut case of accidental death , apart from the problem of identifying him.
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Deputy Coroner Mr Pollard recorded verdicts of accidental death and said he was satisfied what had happened had been purely an accident.
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Coroner Michael Sheffield recorded a verdict of accidental death .
certain
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If they stayed in the war zone they would face almost certain death .
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But if he could not kill them outright, he could put them in the way of tolerably certain death .
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Of certain important deaths that were due to occur at two o'clock.
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There they learned that they had barely escaped certain death .
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The class had seen their friends carried off to a certain death .
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Both heroes fought under the shadow of certain death .
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The ground loomed and certain death faced them in a matter of seconds.
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Would you try to avoid her and drive off to certain death , or would you keep going and kill her?
sudden
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At the penalty shoot-out the same dogged evenness was maintained - it went to sudden death .
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It is the most intimate item of all, a disturbing look at the rude horror of sudden death .
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If our Dean's sudden death was not accidental, it must have been purposeful.
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They get sudden economic death , whether jobs exist or not.
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Doctors must report any sudden deaths they think may have even a theoretical link to a drug.
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During the fieldwork period, sudden infant deaths received enormous publicity in the national media.
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Risk factors for sudden infant death syndrome were calculated separately for Maori and non-Maori children.
tragic
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The royalties go to Birthright; let's hope they find a way to prevent tragic cot deaths .
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Today, the Mirror looks back to the first tragic deaths in one of the world's longest and more bitter conflicts.
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The news of his tragic death stunned everyone.
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Now an inquest is to be held into the tragic woman's death .
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And it is leaving behind a tragic toll of death , heartache and despair throughout Britain.
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Since his tragic death my daughter has carried on his good work.
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Meanwhile parents like Gwen Watkins just want their voice to be heard and a clearer understanding of a tragic chain of deaths .
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Let him know that something good has come out of his tragic death .
untimely
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A pity the author only got the respect she deserved after her untimely death .
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The symbols and memories of untimely death lay all around from morning till night.
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The untimely death of his father did nothing to alter the youngest Charlton's ambition.
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People created just like you and me, their dreams cut short by a terrible, untimely death .
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Tragically, or perhaps fortunately, the hunt was aborted by Gaitskell's untimely death in January 1963.
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Students and faculty told fond stories about Daniels and expressed their sorrow at his untimely death .
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After his untimely death , she had passed the figure on to Carla as a memento of a wonderful man.
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She had died a young, untimely death .
violent
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Nothing, above all, to betray the cosmic anger which invariably surged through his being in the presence of violent death .
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They say people who die sudden, violent deaths are most likely to become ghosts and haunt the earth.
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Sudden, violent death in the fog.
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On March 28, 1980, all the workers died a sudden, violent death , no time to say goodbye.
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There violent death is spectacle; one has the sense of killing but not of dying.
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This was the Cradle: the country of violent birth and violent death .
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Once again he was in the sobering presence of violent death .
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Everyone, however, sympathized with junior officials; and everyone constantly wished a violent death on usurers and moneylenders.
■ NOUN
camp
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In the spring of 1945, the four girls were transported to four more death camps , once by death march.
certificate
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The coroner issues the death certificate , usually ascribing death to a disease found during the post-mortem examination.
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He says, First locate where the person died, get the death certificate , and then find the notary.
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Now the declaration of her age on the death certificate was out of her control, the truth was listed at last.
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There are no death certificates for these children.
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Information for the follow up study was collected by means of personal interviews, death certificates , and records from hospitals and nursing homes.
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How can I have a death certificate ?
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The klebsiella bug was named on Dean's death certificate as a contributing factor.
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But no body or death certificate was produced.
cot
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The New Zealand cot death study was a nationwide case-control study carried out from 1 November 1987 to 31 October 1990.
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The royalties go to Birthright; let's hope they find a way to prevent tragic cot deaths .
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Although the number of cot deaths is now falling, three babies still die unaccountably each day in the United Kingdom.
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The results of this study suggest that the incidence of cot death can be reduced.
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He says the sun will only shine on him if it rains for at least a month. Cot death mix-up.
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The family had a history of cot deaths , and the baby had a heart condition.
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The specimens resulted from therapeutic abortions, miscarriages, and cot deaths .
infant
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Bristol is at the forefront of the fight against a number of childhood conditions, including cancer and sudden infant death .
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During the fieldwork period, sudden infant deaths received enormous publicity in the national media.
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Risk factors for sudden infant death syndrome were calculated separately for Maori and non-Maori children.
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This, of course, assumes that these variables are causally related to sudden infant death syndrome and are independent.
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None of the families interviewed had experienced a sudden infant death .
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In total these four risk factors accounted for 89% of Maori and 79% of non-Maori sudden infant deaths .
penalty
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If we still had the death penalty they'd be hanged, anyway.
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Around the country, there are some signs of eroding support for the death penalty , even among some conservatives.
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In these circumstances facile and fallacious deductions about the consequences of having abolished the death penalty were bound to be rife.
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However, the measure specifically did not take a position on the morality of the death penalty .
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It was expected that President Carlos Saúl Menem would commute any death penalty .
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Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty against Kaczynski, who faces additional charges in a New Jersey bombing death.
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It may be more hesitant than the House of Representatives about extending the death penalty , for instance for drug-dealing.
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The bishops said the death penalty was not a deterrent to crime, had racist overtones and cost millions of dollars.
rate
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South Tees workplace health spokeswoman Anne Newnam said the charter aimed to reduce the death rates from coronary heart disease.
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As in all cities, the infant death rate in Washington fluctuates from year to year.
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In poor countries, however, incomes did not rise as death rates began to fall.
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Six months after their surgery, patients with no religious beliefs had a death rate three times higher than those who did.
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Their high death rate is due to malnutrition, through ecological change, as well as introduced diseases.
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This test was used to ensure a 100% death rate of cells frozen in liquid nitrogen.
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As death rates have declined the proportion of elderly classed as married has increased while the proportion widowed has decreased.
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According to the theory, pre-industrial populations can be characterized by high levels of birth and death rates , and low growth rates.
row
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Instead he fairly hustled his big body along, as if it were a laggardly prisoner he was escorting down death row .
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Despite attempts to curb the number of appeals, death row waits are growing.
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He had spent nearly 13 years on death row .
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Today, on average, inmates are on death row for 10 years.
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He is on death row awaiting execution for a non-political murder.
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On death row at San Quentin for ever, the man got a state-of-the-art execution.
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It was in this second stage that most death row prisoners have raised repeated challenges.
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Only two death row inmates have been put to death since then, and both men chose to call off their appeals.
sentence
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Will she insist on a guilty verdict and mandatory death sentence ?
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There was a time when it was 15 years from the time a death sentence was first issued.
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Essential to Trent's possibilities of survival was that Louis should believe him ignorant of the death sentence already passed.
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Davis, 42, faces a possible death sentence for the 1993 slaying.
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This scaffold gave many years of service but was phased out of use following the last death sentences in 1964.
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Davis, who has pleaded not guilty, is facing a possible death sentence .
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The ayatollahs' death sentence stands.
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On the other hand, it was something akin to a blanket death sentence for the free-flowing rivers in sixteen states.
squad
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Reformists allege that the killings were part of a campaign by state-sponsored death squads to silence dissent.
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This old man had already lost two sons-both journalists-to death squads .
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Torture has been widely used by both security forces and death squads .
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This was the group, formally under army control, that operated as a death squad during the rule of Ferdinand Marcos.
syndrome
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The risk factors for sudden infant death syndrome within groups were remarkably similar.
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Risk factors for sudden infant death syndrome were calculated separately for Maori and non-Maori children.
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This, of course, assumes that these variables are causally related to sudden infant death syndrome and are independent.
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Discussion Mortality from sudden infant death syndrome varies between countries.
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Ethnic differences in mortality from sudden infant death syndrome have been reported from several countries.
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Setting - New Zealand. 485 infants who died of sudden infant death syndrome were compared with 1800 control infants.
threat
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He has received death threats after cheating hundreds of innocent people.
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Vince Tobin withdrew his candidacy for the job after both men got death threats from Ditka fanatics.
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The councillor had already survived one attempt on his life, and had received a stream of death threats .
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Ed Pollard of the Secret Service reported a forty-percent increase in death threats .
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But they want an end to all death threats against the novelist.
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Then came the death threats against Krueger himself, then the ambush of a convoy in which he was traveling.
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The judges have received death threats .
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J., was scrubbed because the promoter got death threats .
toll
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The official death toll was 42, most of them children; local officials and parents put it even higher.
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The death toll exceeded the 1987 Hungerford Massacre, which left 17 dead, including the gunman, Michael Ryan.
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Others set the death toll higher, at up to 1,000 fatalities.
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The death toll is 2, 276, all by fire or drowning.
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Some 20 years earlier the death toll was 773.
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The death toll from a single such explosion could easily be over 10 million people.
■ VERB
beat
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Women are told it's prostitution or a beating , or death .
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The original police report said the whites chased Atkinson while others waited for him on the tracks and beat him to death .
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Recalcitrants were chained, starved and beaten to death .
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Why, given what had happened, I might as well have beaten Papa to death with a club.
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So she locked them in a coat closet where they beat each other half to death in the dark for twenty minutes.
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In the minutes that followed, McDuffie was beaten to death by a group of Dade County police officers.
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We don't see gays being beaten to death in our country because of their sexuality.
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And when he himself was nearly beaten to death .
bleed
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He bled to death in 15 minutes.
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In real life, Selena ran out of that motel room with a bullet wound, and bled to death .
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He quickly bled to death from the injury.
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Not, miraculously, through any major blood vessels, or I would by now have bled internally to death .
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Losing a leg to a shell, he quickly bled to death .
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Within minutes she had bled to death .
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He cut his wrists and bled to death .
bring
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If we had gone on, our love would have brought us the death we secretly called up every time we embraced.
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Angry that he is bringing death and the smell of fire into our house.
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The spiritual resources of patients can do a great deal to help in their recovery or bring about a peaceful death .
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It had brought back the death of her father, of his love without conditions, his moral and spiritual protection.
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After accidentally bringing about the death of his wife and child, he sets up his own suicide.
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Globalization does bring the death of distance, through the consolidation of markets and the use of modern communications and transportation.
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The game of war brings death , and the devil has ensured that this has been a hellishly long game.
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With song and rejoicing they brought death in, and destruction.
cause
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His action has already caused the premature death of 700,000 birds with miserly compensation to owners.
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These opportunistic diseases may eventually cause death .
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Mercifully, it did not cause the death and destruction intended.
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A plague of cholera broke out, causing sixty deaths in the first week.
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Often this blocks a pulmonary artery, causing serious illness or death .
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His arms, those marvelous arms Thetis had brought him from Hephaestus, caused the death of Ajax.
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A 31-year-old labourer was yesterday charged with causing the death of Mr Adams by careless driving after drinking excessively.
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The cancer causes more deaths than any other cancer of the female reproductive system, but it is difficult to find.
condemn
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Mottram was an original drunken sailor and was condemned to death for stealing a boat.
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White told how he had repeatedly tried to escape, been twice captured, twice imprisoned, finally condemned to death .
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As befitted his rank he was tried before the House of Lords and, being found guilty, was condemned to death .
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Fatally offended, the jury condemned him to death .
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His cook was charged and being found guilty was condemned to death .
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McVeigh was condemned to death after his conviction on identical charges in June.
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Justine has been condemned to death .
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This does not condemn interactive multimedia to death , but it does suggest a slower-than-expected scenario for widespread adoption.
die
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Is it surprising that he should die a natural death from a heart attack?
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Did you get to die a horrible death with giant ants gnawing at your body?
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True paschal lamb, dying he destroyed our death , rising he restored our life.
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The Saint died a most holy death on May 2, 1459.
follow
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The ghost sensed the emptiness that follows the death of a mind.
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Quite often, a son or daughter will be responsible for the formalities and requirements that follow a death .
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Extra benefits include cash payments of up to £13,000 for certain permanent injuries and £2,500 left to your estate following accidental death .
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There were riots in Belfast and Derry following Sands' death .
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A curfew had been imposed, explained Selkirk, because of the situation following the King's death .
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It follows the death of a man from gunshot wounds.
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By the 1830s, following Webb's death , Peter Playne was the tenant.
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However, the issue returned to prominence following the death of a hunger striker on Oct. 14.
freeze
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Charsky watched him freeze to death before his eyes.
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I wondered if we would make it to our destination without freezing to death during the night.
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We decided to abandon fishing and head for home before I froze to death .
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Once they grew above the level of the snow, they too would be vulnerable to rapid freezing and death .
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The little children are freezing to death .
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And no, the baby never froze to death .
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Its residents are beginning to wonder if they have been condemned to a slow, freezing death .
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One of them froze to death in 1943.
lead
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However, any treatment to relieve pain and suffering may well be justified even if this leads to an earlier death .
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Francis, said a side effect of morphine is decreased respiration, which can lead to death .
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It leads to death and a scandalous murder inquiry which threatens to expose some dark secrets.
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It is the leading cause of death for 40-to 49-year-old women.
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The only possible qualification is a case in which the choice may lead to the death of a viable foetus.
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This results in excessive contraction of the muscles leading to death .
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Clashes between police and opposition protesters in Zanzibar over disputed elections have led to an unconfirmed death toll of 37.
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Even in 1987 the brand new ship was suffering smells similar to those which led to the deaths of Katherine and James Tomlins.
receive
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Employees and shareholders have also received death threats and hate mail.
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The first nine defendants all received death sentences.
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He has received death threats after cheating hundreds of innocent people.
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She received graphic, gruesome death threats.
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Liliam was again forced into exile in 1961 after she received death threats.
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The crime was extremely brutal, as was Ferguson's treatment of his crew, and he received the death sentence.
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The councillor had already survived one attempt on his life, and had received a stream of death threats.
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I love gigging in the South although, oddly, it's the only place we've ever received death threats.
result
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The trouble is that when they are they result in deaths .
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The hostility and bloodshed associated with the partition resulted in 1 million deaths .
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Rosie Johnston was at the centre of the scandal which resulted in Olivia's death six years ago.
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Using either product can result in injury and death .
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In 1970 a large area of bamboo flowered and died resulting in many deaths through starvation in the panda population.
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The disorders continued for seven days, resulting in the death of fifteen whites and twenty-three blacks.
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If this concentration is high, then it will result in the death of fish.
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Since 1981, there have been 665 crashes at state crossings, resulting in 81 deaths and 205 injuries.
scare
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If he caught him up here again he'd see him off, scare him to death .
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But the first time I did it, I was scared half to death .
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The first time this had happened to her, she had been scared to death .
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They acted as if they knew what would happen if they lost, and they were scared to death of it.
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Then I looked up lymphoma in a medical book and almost scared myself to death !
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His bungalow had scared her to death .
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Then she'd jump out and scare them to death !
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You had us scared half to death .
shoot
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Her husband was shot to death in 1990.
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The meeting took place Wednesday evening, just hours before the younger Cosby was shot to death .
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Martin law firm, where he killed eight and wounded six before shooting himself to death .
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He faces a count of second-degree murder in the Nov. 10 shooting death of Brad Hansen, also 13.
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Another night, one August midnight, an argument outside the record store ended with a man being shot to death .
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Cooke was 33 in 1964 when he was shot to death in a Los Angeles motel.
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This volunteer was Edgar Derby, the high school teacher who would be shot to death in Dresden.
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On weekends, police constantly are being called out to handle everything from fistfights to shooting deaths .
stab
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The two Leeds supporters were believed to have been stabbed to death after an argument with workmen.
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The other man to die was Brian Roberson, 36, who stabbed to death an elderly couple in 1986.
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Murray Pugh, a trainee P-E teacher, was stabbed to death last weekend.
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Half a block away, a woman is raped and stabbed to death behind an abandoned church.
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Major's partner in crime was later stabbed to death during another raid.
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Student teacher is stabbed to death .
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Read in studio A murder suspect has told a court that he accidentally stabbed a teenager to death during a street fight.
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Hornlein had previously stabbed a man to death and stolen his money; he and Knau then shot and robbed another man.
starve
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The entire population had starved to death .
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Some one like you is likely to lie down in the street and starve to death .
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In 1994 a judge ruled that prisoners who were mentally competent were free to starve themselves to death .
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Recalcitrants were chained, starved and beaten to death .
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It is, of course, less honest than Spencer and denies that anyone will starve to death .
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He had not promised to starve himself to death on the steps of the town hall until he got justice.
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Some will starve to death , others will die of exposure, still others will be beaten or burned or tortured.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a fate worse than death
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I knew that Grandma's visit would be a fate worse than death.
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After all, she didn't know him, and a fate worse than death might just be awaiting her.
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It certainly wasn't because he was trying to save her from a Fate Worse than Death.
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There are various Pelagias who are known as penitent harlots or virgin martyrs who died to escape a fate worse than death.
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We've even growled at the horse, and threatened it with a fate worse than death, but to no avail!
a fight to the death/finish
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And if there's not enough advertising to go round, it could be a fight to the death.
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By 1807 politics had become a fight to the death between the two factions.
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It will be a fight to the finish.
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Six teams are bitter rivals in what will be a fight to the finish.
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Some say 1972 was a fight to the death, which left Jacklin as the slain gladiator.
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Usually if two gray angels of nearly equal size are placed together a fight to the death ensues.
a living death
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But the hard labour for criminals which replaced judicial execution was so appalling that it was in effect a living death.
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If you have opted for non-action, then you have opted for a living death.
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In anorexia nervosa, which becomes a living death, the same connections are prevalent, together with the same confusing implications.
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Life without hope is a living death.
a matter of life and/or death
cheat death/fate etc
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And because he thought he could cheat death.
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Explain how you cheated death at every stage of the journey.
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Our attempts to cheat life have progressed to an attempt to cheat death.
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Some of them are cheating death.
court danger/death etc
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But no evidence suggests that she courted danger for her children as she encouraged their freedom.
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They court death and we enjoy the spectacle so we reward them for it.
death by misadventure
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A second inquest in February 1987, returned a verdict of death by misadventure .
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A verdict of death by misadventure was recorded.
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At the end of a four-hour hearing, the inquest jury returned a verdict of death by misadventure .
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The coroner's jury brought in death by misadventure , on advice by the coroner.
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The coroner recorded a verdict of death by misadventure .
dice with death
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When young people experiment with drugs, they're dicing with death.
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And some have diced with death to make Bond look good.
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But every day hundreds of ordinary workers dice with death to complete these essential tasks.
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Towing drivers are dicing with death, too.
die a/the death
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I did not have the courage then to die the death that she died.
drink yourself silly/into a stupor/to death etc
feel a death/a loss etc
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Subjects began to feel a loss of control of the course of their thinking.
fight to the death/finish
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And if there's not enough advertising to go round, it could be a fight to the death.
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Every couple would live miles apart and fight to the death any intrusion into their home range-which they would never leave.
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If the adventurers pursue the Harpies back to their lair, they will fight to the death to defend it.
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It is economic nonsense to suggest that nations are engaged in a mercantilist fight to the death.
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They say we massacred him, but he would have massacred us had we not defended ourselves and fought to the death.
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They simply seem to charge into battle, and would probably to fight to the death unless we separated them.
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Usually if two gray angels of nearly equal size are placed together a fight to the death ensues.
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While not explicit, many implied that they would indeed fight to the death for their managing director.
flog sth to death
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It was a good story a month ago, but the newspapers have really flogged it to death.
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The beheading of murderers, the flogging and stoning to death of adulterers, the circumcision of women?
hold/hang on for/like grim death
life and death
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In Catal Huyuk the images of life and death mingle in a way that may strike us as bizarre.
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In some cases this might be literally a matter of life and death.
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Issues of life and death also ride the roller coaster in the same trivialising way.
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Not for reasons of life and death or right and wrong, however.
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Or, more accurately, a game of life and death.
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Pure happenstance and luck had much to do with life and death on both sides.
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The words life and death have no meaning for them.
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These two objects are symbolic of life and death.
meet your death/end
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If the ropes do jam then please remember that the great Giusto Gervasutti met his death during just such a retrieval operation.
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In that position Buddha met his end.
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Medieval representation of Frederick Barbarossa as a crusader, the role in which he met his death.
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No officer convicted of plotting against him met his end at the hands of the firing squad.
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Strange coincidence, the same place where Whitton had met his death.
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The last band met its end in 1906, in the Chiricahuas.
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When a herring meets its end, it is usually in the mouth of a bigger fish or a in a net.
merciful death/end/release
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With the Giants leading 28-7, half-time came as a merciful relief.
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And Elinor was just going to have to wait for her merciful release.
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Death had been a merciful release for him.
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These were the alternatives to a quick, merciful death.
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Those animals put down had a merciful release.
on/under pain of death
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In effect, each is swearing to keep it on pain of death.
stone sb to death
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And they stoned her to death.
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TheJewish council stoned Stephen to death after he denounced them.
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They might approve of, and practice, ostracizing homosexuals from society, but stoning them to death?
the jaws of death/defeat/despair etc
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The shocked priority of examining herself after escaping, literally, from the jaws of death, wore off.
the kiss of death
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An "X" rating can be the kiss of death at the box office for a big-budget movie.
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Although it was very tempting, accepting it would be the kiss of death for the concept.
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But its demise was further justification to the movie industry that musicals are the kiss of death.
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That's got to be the kiss of death.
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Why should living together, in particular, be the kiss of death to hopeful marrieds?
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Yet the onset of daylight, with its much better conditions, brought the kiss of death.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A comet appeared at the time of the death of Julius Caesar in 44 B.C.
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After her husband's death , she moved back to California.
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Authorities counted 50 traffic deaths over the holiday weekend.
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Basquiat's work had become well known even before his untimely death at age 27.
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Catherine will inherit a large sum of money on her father's death .
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Maretti lived in Miami until his death .
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The bomb caused at least one death , and several serious injuries.
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The latest death toll in the Turkish earthquake is over 2000.
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The number of deaths from AIDS is still increasing in many parts of the world.
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The policy provides full insurance in the case of accidental death .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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No, the people who had ordered Jay's death - they were the ones who had to be punished.
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Perhaps, thought Robert, I should sentence him to death .
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Such deaths are normal consequences of Western contact with previously isolated tribes.
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The news of his impending death had badly ruffled his composure.
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The other 5 percent of deaths were caused by various weapons and methods, including burning.
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The Smithsonian label was shaken by the death of Rinzler last year at the age of 59.
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Though infected lions can meet a miserable death , Packer reports that 60 percent of those with distemper have survived.