List of synonyms from "death-defying" to synonyms from "death wish"
Discover all the synonyms available for the terms death toll, Death Valley, death statistics, death duty, death groan, death's-head and many more. Click on one of the words below and go directly to the synonyms associated with it.
- Death-defying
- Death duty
- Death factory
- Death groan
- Death-head
- Death head
- Death in life
- Death instinct
- Death knell
- Death march
- Death notice
- Death penalty
- Death's-head
- Death song
- Death squad
- Death statistics
- Death tax
- Death throe
- Death throes
- Death toll
- Death Valley
- Death valleys
- Death warrant
- Death wish
Definition of the day : « death knell »
- As in death warrant : noun legal order to execute someone
- The failure to grasp this fact is the death knell of orthodox religion.
- Extract from : « The Mistakes of Jesus » by William Floyd
- The one word the Professor's Wife spoke was like a death knell.
- Extract from : « What's He Doing in There? » by Fritz Reuter Leiber
- He watched the clock now as a man who waits for the death knell.
- Extract from : « The Forged Note » by Oscar Micheaux
- The advent of this vessel was the death knell of the Indian tribes.
- Extract from : « The Old Franciscan Missions Of California » by George Wharton James
- Indeed there can be but little doubt that this event also sounded the death knell of Maya civilization.
- Extract from : « An Introduction to the Study of the Maya Hieroglyphs » by Sylvanus Griswold Morley
- At intervals of ten minutes the huge seventeen-inch shells fell, sounding the death knell of the beautiful old town.
- Extract from : « The Great War As I Saw It » by Frederick George Scott
- "I can write a few lines to her, and try," replied I mournfully, for the old man's words sounded like a death knell to my hopes.
- Extract from : « Frank Fairlegh » by Frank E. Smedley
- For the time being that seemed to sound the death knell of the common road steam-propelled vehicle.
- Extract from : « Automobile Biographies » by Lyman Horace Weeks
- Can they not grasp the fact that the influx of Americans and American capital sounds the death knell of slavery and peonage?
- Extract from : « The Philippines Past and Present (Volume 2 of 2) » by Dean Conant Worcester
- He was extremely perplexed, for to him it was as his death knell, and he commenced setting his house in order.
- Extract from : « The Mysteries of All Nations » by James Grant