单词 | to death |
释义 | to deathphrase See full dictionary entry for deathYou 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. to deathphrase See full dictionary entry for deathYou 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. 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 to death in British Englishexcessively bored to death to death in American English to the extreme; very much he worries me to death to deathused 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 |
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