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death-bed

death-bed is the alternative spelling of deathbed.

Meaning of deathbed

Noun

deathbed (plural deathbeds)

  1. The bed on which someone dies.
    • He was once on his way to an old woman, who was on her death-bed and who had led a wicked life.1886, Peter Christen Asbjø￵rnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 254
  2. The last hours before death.
  3. A grave; the site of a burial or entombment.
    • “Will you ask our oldest warriors to build me a barrow? Ask them to climb this headland and build me a death pile high on its top. Let my deathbed rise high above Hronesnesse.”1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 47

Forms of death-bed

pluraldeath-beds

Phrases with death-bed

Questions about death-bed

What is death-bed the alternative spelling of?
Death-bed is the alternative spelling of deathbed.

Words near death-bed in the dictionary

  1. death's-head
  2. death's-head hawkmoth
  3. death's-head hawkmoths
  4. death's-heads
  5. death-bearing
  6. death-bed
  7. death-bed conversion
  8. death-bed conversions
  9. death-beds
  10. death-come-quickly
  11. death-damp

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