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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

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 and taxes
  2. death angel
  3. death angels
  4. death barrier
  5. death barriers
  6. death bed
  7. death bed conversion
  8. death bed conversions
  9. death beds
  10. death bell
  11. death bells

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