death chamber
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- noun
- /dɛθ ˈtʃeɪmbər/
- NSFW
:
cámara de ejecución
- He acknowledges that Penry may never receive a lethal injection administered in the death chamber at the prison system's Huntsville Unit.
- death chamber at the prison
- go to the death chamber
- walk into the death chamber
And then we are escorted into the viewing area in the death chamber.
- And then we are escorted into the viewing area in the death chamber.
- It's got obviously the most active death chamber in the nation, the most aggressive private prison industry.
Examples
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Less than four minutes after the prisoner enters the death chamber, he's toast.
Fiction book (1997) -
First to go into the death chamber was Julius Rosenberg.
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"As for the death chamber itself, it's pretty basic.
Fiction book (1997) -
We're in the death chamber.
Fiction book (2000) -
This is the death chamber, where the warden, a physician, and a minister will stand around the gurney.
Fiction book (1999) -
In Iraq, Saddam's death chambers would still be there (Saddam killed thousands per year).
Blog text (6) -
The condemned prisoner was taken to the death chamber to face execution by lethal gas.
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Witnesses gathered outside the death chamber as the officials prepared for the execution.
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Inside the death chamber, the atmosphere was tense as the time for execution approached.
Synonyms
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A sealed room where people or animals die from poison gas
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound is largely compositional: a B1 learner who knows 'death' and 'chamber' will infer it denotes a room associated with death (likely a place where people die or are put to death). However, the precise institutional connotations — a sealed execution room, use of poison gas, or formal execution context — are specialized details not fully predictable from the parts, so the expression is not fully transparent.
Etymology
Death chamber comes from the literal image of a closed chamber, a small room into which poison gas is released to cause death. That simple picture — a closed room used for an 'execution' — is why the term means a room used to kill people or animals.