deathbed
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- noun
- /ˈdɛθˌbɛd/
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lecho de muerte
- He managed to smile at each of us around his deathbed, fearless to the very end.
- lie on one's deathbed
- a deathbed scene
- utter on one's deathbed
Pumps did this basically from her deathbed because the show must go on.
- Pumps did this basically from her deathbed because the show must go on.
- Don't ever lay on your deathbed and say I should.
- When you're on the deathbed, you got stories for days.
- I just wanted to say thank you because on my deathbed I'll be a happy man.
- He managed to smile at each of us around his deathbed, fearless to the very end.
- The most fortunate amongst us may get the parental deathbed confession, but don't hold out for it.
- One season ended with one the characters on their deathbed in the hospital.
- I grew very close to him and I remained so until I was at his deathbed in Paris.
- And tying it back to the elderly person lying on their deathbed.
- What would have to happen if you were on your deathbed?
- You know, Louis Pasteur in his deathbed recanted and said, yes, Beauchamp was right.
- I don't want to have regret when I'm on my deathbed.
- But they took it on board to go and betray him on his deathbed.
- And I have again and again seen people on the deathbed.
- He actually said on his deathbed, I should have spent more time on religious things.
- Well, they would just have to do as Maude instructed on his deathbed.
Examples
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Neil and I had raced home to be there at his deathbed because things got very bad very fast.
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I grew very close to him and I remained so until I was at his deathbed in Paris.
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And this guy who is on his deathbed gave us everything he had.
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I made the mistake of telling my dad on his deathbed that it was wrong.
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I have sat at the deathbed of two people in my life.
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That cop on his deathbed gave us the exact location in a map.
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My mother was literally on her deathbed when he left home.
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On his deathbed, he revealed your existence to Louis and your mother.
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I promised my mother on her deathbed; I said, "Mom, don't worry about a thing."
Fiction book (2000) -
On his deathbed, he shared stories from his youth that brought everyone to tears.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Deathbed is made from death ('the end of life') and bed ('a place where someone lies'). It literally means the bed where someone is dying and also the last moments before death, so it is used for final words, decisions, or confessions.