life-and-deathadjective [ before noun ]
uk/ˌlaɪf.ənˈdeθ/us/ˌlaɪf.ənˈdeθ/also life-or-deathinvolving the possibility that someone will die:
We were now in a life-and-death situation.
very important and serious:
a life-and-death matter
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Death and dying
- be pushing up (the) daisies idiom
- bereave
- bite
- bury
- buy the farm idiom
- depart
- done
- drop
- expire
- foot
- gone
- in extremis
- loss
- mortality
- peg
- posthumous
- road kill
- SIDS
- sudden infant death syndrome
- the disappeared
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