sudden infant death syndromenoun [ U ]
uk/ˌsʌd.ən ɪn.fənt ˈdeθ ˌsɪn.drəʊm/us/ˌsʌd.ən ɪn.fənt ˈdeθ ˌsɪn.droʊm/abbreviation SIDSa medical condition in which a baby who is sleeping dies suddenly for no obvious reason
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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
- inquest
- loss
- mortality
- peg
- posthumous
- road kill
- SIDS
- the disappeared
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