to death

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishto deathto deathinformal a) used to emphasize that a feeling or emotion is very strongbe bored/scared/frightened etc to death She was scared to death of what might happen next. I’m absolutely sick to death of it (=very angry, bored, or unhappy about something).bore/scare/love etc somebody to death He drove at a speed which frightened Leonora to death. She used to worry me to death. b) used to say that an action is continued with a lot of effort and for as long as possible They just work you to death in that place. → deathExamples from the Corpusto death• This approach to death was appealing.• Death sentences Three members of the illegal Hezbollah organization were condemned to death on March 1 by a criminal court in Tlemcen.• And no, the baby never froze to death.• Exclaiming that he was already a priest, Quirnus insisted that the magistrate put him to death.• Will he be caught at last, and put to death?• The baby starved to death.

单词	to death
释义	to death From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishto deathto deathinformal a) used to emphasize that a feeling or emotion is very strongbe bored/scared/frightened etc to death She was scared to death of what might happen next. I’m absolutely sick to death of it (=very angry, bored, or unhappy about something).bore/scare/love etc somebody to death He drove at a speed which frightened Leonora to death. She used to worry me to death. b) used to say that an action is continued with a lot of effort and for as long as possible They just work you to death in that place. → deathExamples from the Corpusto death• This approach to death was appealing.• Death sentences Three members of the illegal Hezbollah organization were condemned to death on March 1 by a criminal court in Tlemcen.• And no, the baby never froze to death.• Exclaiming that he was already a priest, Quirnus insisted that the magistrate put him to death.• Will he be caught at last, and put to death?• The baby starved to death.
随便看	as follows as for as for somebody/something as friendly etc as ever as friendly/cheerful/miserable etc as ever as from as from as from/of something as goes as good a place etc as any as good a time etc as any as good a time/place etc as any as good as as good as dead etc as good as dead/ruined/useless etc as good as done etc as good as done/finished etc as good as finished etc as good as ruined etc as good as useless etc as guest as guilty as sin as happy as a clam as hard as nails as hard as nails