| 单词 | death-giving |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdeath-giving death-giving adj. ΚΠ 1598 L. A. tr. G. Fernandez Honour of Chiualrie 183 No more fearing his death-giuing-sword, then if hee had that day hurt none. 1725 tr. M. de Cervantes Life & Actions of Don Quixote ii. xiii. 136/2 The strange things these Shepherds have told us, as well of the dead Shepherd, as of the Death-giving Shepherdess. 1797 J. Walker Elements Geogr., Nat. & Civil Hist. (ed. 3) iii. xvi. 259 Sometimes..his opposers..fall under his death-giving gripe. 1882 H. W. Longfellow In Harbor 39 Life-giving, death-giving, which will it be? 1942 S. Spender Life & Poet 30 Tyrants who wish to freeze institutions into death-giving instead of life-giving forms. 1999 C. Hitchens No one Left to lie To ii. 40 An hour was spent on the cut-down process, before the death-giving chemicals could kick in. < as lemmas |
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