death list
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9.3
- noun
- /dɛθ lɪst/
- Offensive
:
lista de personas a eliminar
- We have placed 125 names on a death list.
- name on a death list
Examples
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Here's the death list.
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This is a death list.
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So the death list goes on.
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Do you have the death list?
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The Association's got a death list... and your name's on it.
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They have a death list.
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The death list climbed to twenty-two.
Fiction book (1991) -
You're number one on the death list now, Winger.
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The group created a death list of those who opposed their ideology.
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After reviewing the death list, the authorities launched an investigation.
Synonyms
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7.8
A list of people marked to be harmed or killed, often by criminals
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a list of people targeted to be killed or harmed' is directly built from combining 'death' (end of life) with 'list' (a recorded sequence of names/items), so a B1 learner who knows both words would infer it denotes a list related to death — commonly understood as people expected to die or be killed. There is no strong idiomatic shift or metaphorical extension here, and similar noun+noun compounding patterns exist across languages, making the construction predictable.
Etymology
Death list comes from the image of a paper or document where names are written and marked for death, a list showing who is chosen to die. That's why the phrase means 'a list of people targeted to be killed or harmed'.