单词 | death-in-life state |
释义 | > as lemmasdeath-in-life state General attributive, as death-in-life existence, death-in-life state, etc. ΚΠ 1847 Law Mag. 7 182 The ‘death in life’ aspect of all of them was still more painful than that of the spellbound workers in the hall below. 1850 Fraser's Mag. Dec. 628/2 The alligators..remain concealed and comfortable, in the sort of death-in-life state of hybernation. 1907 Folk-lore June 228 A seven years' death-in-life trance. 1937 M. M. Kaplan Meaning of God in Mod. Jewish Relig. iii. 139 They are compelled to drag out a sort of death-in-life existence. 2011 S. Jacoby Never say Die (2012) v. 100 Alzheimer's imposes not ‘a spell’ of suffering but a life sentence—or, rather, a death-in-life sentence. < as lemmas |
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