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death-struggles

death-struggles is the plural of death-struggle.

Meaning of death-struggle

Noun

death-struggle (plural death-struggles)

  1. The final throes of bodily effort before dying; agony; death throes.
    • "It will cure him if he be not dead. Swift, now! Swift! The man dies!" I glanced towards him; it was true enough, Leo was in his death-struggle.1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC

Questions about death-struggles

What is death-struggles the plural of?
Death-struggles is the plural of death-struggle.

Words near death-struggles in the dictionary

  1. death-spiral
  2. death-spirals
  3. death-stare
  4. death-stiffness
  5. death-struggle
  6. death-struggles
  7. death-wail
  8. death-wails
  9. death-watch beetle
  10. death-watch beetles
  11. death/doom

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