Word.ws English Dictionary

death-sough

death-sough noun: the last heavy breathings or sighings of a dying person.

Noun

death-sough (plural not attested)

  1. (Scotland, no plural) The last heavy breathings or sighings of a dying person.

Forms of death-sough

alternative formdeathsough
alternative formdeath sough

Origin of death-sough

From death + sough (“sigh, breath”).

Questions about death-sough

What does death-sough mean?
Death-sough means the last heavy breathings or sighings of a dying person.
What part of speech is death-sough?
Death-sough is a noun.

Words near death-sough in the dictionary

  1. death-prices
  2. death-rattle
  3. death-rattles
  4. death-ray
  5. death-rays
  6. death-sough
  7. death-spiral
  8. death-spirals
  9. death-stare
  10. death-stiffness
  11. death-struggle

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: death-sough (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “death-sough.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/death-sough. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.