SIDSnoun [ U ]
uk/sɪdz/us/sɪdz/UK also cot death, US also crib deathabbreviation for sudden infant death syndrome: a medical condition in which a baby dies suddenly while it is sleeping for no obvious reason
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
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
- sudden infant death syndrome
- the disappeared
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