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单词 sudden death
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sudden death

uncountable noun [oft NOUN noun]
Sudden death is a way of quickly deciding the winner of something such as a football or basketball game or a golf tournament when there are equal scores at the time when it would normally end. In a sudden-death situation, the first team to score a goal or the first golfer to win a hole is the winner.
Twenty games have gone to sudden death–a new cup record.
He beat his opponent at the second hole of a sudden death play-off.

sudden death in British English

noun
1. 
(in sports, etc) an extra game or contest to decide the winner of a tied competition
2. 
an unexpected or quick death

sudden death in American English

Sport
an additional period, game, etc. added to break a tie, the play ending when one side or participant scores

Examples of 'sudden death' in a sentence
sudden death

In some cases there are no early symptoms and sudden death is the first indication that anything is wrong.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
Symptoms include breathlessness and fainting, but in a third of cases the first symptom is sudden death.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
The most harrowing is the grief of a family over the sudden death of a 26-year-old son; the most heartwarming is a civil marriage between two brides.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)

In other languages
sudden death

British English: sudden death NOUN
Sudden death is a way of quickly deciding the winner of something such as a football or basketball game or a golf tournament when there are equal scores at the time when it would normally end. In a sudden-death situation, the first team to score a goal or the first golfer to win a hole is the winner.
Twenty games have gone to sudden death–a new cup record.
  • American English: sudden death
  • Brazilian Portuguese: morte súbita
  • Chinese: 得分决胜
  • European Spanish: muerte súbita
  • French: mort subite
  • German: Stichkampf
  • Italian: sudden death
  • Japanese: サドンデス
  • Korean: 단판 결승
  • European Portuguese: morte súbita
  • Latin American Spanish: muerte súbita

All related terms of 'sudden death'

sudden cardiac death
the unexpected death of a young adult , usually due to undetected inherited heart disease
sudden death syndrome
the unexpected death of a young adult , usually due to undetected inherited heart disease
sudden adult death syndrome
the unexpected death of a young adult , usually due to undetected inherited heart disease
sudden infant death syndrome
the sudden death, of unknown cause, of an apparently healthy infant , usually during sleep
cot death
Cot death is the sudden death of a baby while it is asleep , although the baby had not previously been ill .
crib death
Crib death is the sudden death of a baby while it is asleep , although the baby had not previously been ill .
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