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 Translation for 'to death' from English to Dutch
SYNO death | decease | demise | ...
dood {de}death
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2 Words
genees.
hersendood {noun}
brain death
genees.
hersendood {noun}
cerebral death
genadeslag {de}death blow [coup de grâce]
overlijdensakte {de}death certificate
dodenmars {de}death march
recht
doodstraf {de}
death penalty
recht
doodvonnis {het}
death sentence
heldendood {de}hero's death
heldendood {de}heroic death
3 Words
bij zijn dood {adv}at his death
doodsangst {de}fear of death
doodsuur {het}hour of death
bijna-doodervaring {de} <BDE>near-death experience <NDE>
tijdstip {het} van overlijdentime of death <TOD, ToD>
4 Words
zich uitslovento work oneself to death
genees.
hersendood {noun}
death of the brain
Fiction (Literature and Film)
lit.F
De geesten van de Andes [Mario Vargas Llosa]
Death in the Andes
lit.theaterF
Dood van een handelsreiziger
Death of a Salesman [Arthur Miller]
lit.F
De dood van Ivan Iljitsj
The Death of Ivan Ilyich [Leo Tolstoy]
Taxa/Species (Animals, Plants, Fungi)
entom.T
doodshoofdpijlstaart {de} [Acherontia atropos]
(African) death's head hawkmoth
zoöl.T
doodsadder {de} [Acanthophis antarcticus]
common death adder
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Usage Examples English
  • The function of the aorta is documented in the Talmud, where it is noted as one of three major vessels entering or leaving the heart, and where perforation is linked to death.
  • the temporal dignitaries — the 126 members of both the Senate and magistrates that comprised the court — declared Alexei guilty and sentenced him to death.
  • He notes the death of Agrippina's mother, who starved herself to death amidst her exile in AD 14, linking her death to Tiberius' disdain for her.
  • For a large catch, a whole village would drive a herd of deer off a cliff and club them to death.
  • or because he had saved senators sentenced to death by Hadrian in his later years.

  • In 326, Constans's mother Fausta was also put to death on Constantine's orders, as were Constans's half-brother Crispus and Licinius II.
  • He nevertheless froze to death, but before he died, he wrote a note to the effect that whoever should find him and bury him in their church should inherit his Plymstock estate.
  • A prisoner who has been sentenced to death and awaits execution is "condemned" and is commonly referred to as being "on death row".
  • In 2006, Charles starred in two British feature films: the fantasy film "Fated" and the gangster film "Clubbing to Death".
  • In 1947, five of them were sentenced to death. However, following representations made by the newly independent government of India, their sentences were reduced to penal servitude for life.

  • Python was sent by Hera to hunt the pregnant Leto to death, and had assaulted her.
  • Fifteen local Jews were sentenced to death and burned.
  • Although it is believed he was martyred by being stoned, the apocryphal Acts of Barnabas states that he was bound with a rope by the neck, and then being dragged only to the site where he would be burned to death.
  • Small work-type utility knives have also been used to commit robbery and other crimes. In June 2004, a Japanese student was slashed to death with a segmented-type utility knife.
  • A big disadvantage of complex biological sewage treatment systems is that if the house is empty, the sewage system biota may starve to death.

  • His two brothers were sentenced to death for piracy by Ladislaus of Naples.
  • Choosing to resist, their town was besieged and conquered; the males were put to death and the women sold into slavery (see Melian dialogue).
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