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单词 death knell
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death knellnoun [ S ]

uk/ˈdeθ ˌnel/us/ˈdeθ ˌnel/

a warning of the end of something:

The opening of the superstore will sound/toll the death knell for (= cause the failure of) hundreds of small independent shops.

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Predicting things and intuition

  • augur
  • augury
  • bellwether
  • betcha
  • bode
  • far-sighted
  • intuition
  • intuitive
  • nasty
  • omen
  • ominous
  • projection
  • prophetic
  • psychic
  • read sb's mind idiom
  • read sb's palm idiom
  • read the runes idiom
  • scenario
  • scent
  • visionary

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death knellnoun [ C ]

/ˈdeθ ˌnel/

a warning of the end of something:

Defeat of this bill sounds a death knell for consumer protection.
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