deathbednoun [ C usually singular ]
uk/ˈdeθ.bed/us/ˈdeθ.bed/the bed that someone dies in or is dying in:
She spoke to her family from her deathbed.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
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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Idiom(s)
be on your deathbed