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单词 to death
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to death

phrase
You use to death after a verb to indicate that a particular action or process results in someone's death.
He was stabbed to death.
...relief missions to try to keep the country's population from starving to death.
He almost bled to death after the bullet severed an artery.
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to death

phrase
You use to death after an adjective or a verb to emphasize the action, state, or feeling mentioned. For example, if you are frightened to death or bored to death, you are extremely frightened or bored.
[emphasis]
He scares teams to death with his pace and power.
Years ago I would have worried myself to death about it, but now I accept it.
I went out last night, but not for very long. I was bored to death.
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to death in British English

or to the death
a. 
until dead
bleed to death
a fight to the death
b.  to death
excessively
bored to death
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to death in British English

excessively
bored to death
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to death in American English

to the extreme; very much
he worries me to death
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to death

used after adjectives such as `scared', `worried', and `bored' to mean 'very'
She was scared to death that he would leave her.

Examples of 'to death' in a sentence
to death

Her own mother had starved to death but her father had not been imprisoned.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
The so-called leader of the gang was sentenced to death.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
She was acquitted, but the two men were found guilty and sentenced to death.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Old age is too close to death, the last taboo.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
The influential cleric is the first of those accused of atrocities to be sentenced to death.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
She almost bled to death after using the shears.
The Sun (2007)
The whole country is sick to death of him.
The Sun (2009)
He kept repeating this question while he beat his father to death with the hammer.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
She has been subjected to death threats and can no longer work outside the city limits.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
He remembers very clearly being almost crushed to death.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
But then we have a curious attitude to death in this country.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
She had been subjected to death threats and a vitriolic online campaign.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
As a man the same age as me who was now being sentenced to death for his beliefs.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
She has been sentenced to death.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
My father kicked it to death.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
He now seemed close to death.
Benjamin Woolley THE HERBALIST: Nicholas Culpeper Rebel Physician (2004)
He was swiftly sentenced to death.
Christianity Today (2000)
Returning home, he discovered that his father had starved to death.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
I did cereal bars to death last time.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
In fact I'd increase the punishment for stopping on one from a penalty charge to death by sniper fire.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)

All related terms of 'to death'

do to death
to kill
fed to death
bored or annoyed
put to death
to kill deliberately or execute
to the death
to the very end (of a struggle , quarrel , etc.)
bored to death
extremely bored
flog to death
to persuade a person so persistently of the value of (an idea or venture ) that he or she loses interest in it
put sb to death
If someone is put to death , they are executed .
scared to death
extremely scared
fight to the death
If you say that you will fight to the death for something, you are emphasizing that you will do anything to achieve or protect it, even if you suffer as a consequence .
work sb/os to death
If you say that someone works another person to death , you are emphasizing that they make them work very hard indeed, especially in a way that seems cruel or unfair .
a fight to the death
If you refer to a fight or contest as a fight to the death , you are emphasizing that it will not stop until the death or total victory of one of the opponents .
scared to death scared stiff
If you are scared to death or scared stiff , you are extremely scared.
to sound the death knell
If you say that something sounds the death knell for a particular person or thing, you mean it will cause that person or thing to fail , end, or cease to exist .
tickle pink
to please greatly
to look like death warmed over
to look terrible
fight to the death to do something
to try very hard to achieve something or to keep hold of something, refusing to give up
to sign one's own death warrant
If you say that someone is signing their own death warrant , you mean that they are behaving in a way which will cause their ruin or death.
bore to tears/bore to death/bore stiff
If someone or something bores you to tears , bores you to death , or bores you stiff , they bore you very much.
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