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death warmed over

death warmed over noun: a state of being extremely ill or injured.

Noun

death warmed over

  1. A state of being extremely ill or injured.
    • The first time the medical officer looked at me, he said I was D, for death warmed over.2005, Colleen Heffernan, A Kind of Courage, →ISBN, page 75
    • I am the reign of terror, the ten plagues, I am a case of the clap, I am the thing that goes bump in the night, De Shadow, death warmed over.2007, Robert M. Sapolsky, A Primate's Memoir, →ISBN

Examples of death warmed over in a sentence

  • There are those who seek to live apart from HIM; but that end is the epitome of 'death warmed over'.2012, Franklin Trainer, Provoked, →ISBN, page 2:
  • The hair warms you up to death warmed over.2013, Harry Turtledove, Cayos in the Stream, →ISBN:

Questions about death warmed over

What does death warmed over mean?
Death warmed over means a state of being extremely ill or injured.
How do you use death warmed over in a sentence?
There are those who seek to live apart from HIM; but that end is the epitome of 'death warmed over'.
What part of speech is death warmed over?
Death warmed over is a noun.

Words near death warmed over in the dictionary

  1. Death Valley
  2. Death Valley driver
  3. Death Valley drivers
  4. death wail
  5. death wails
  6. death warmed over
  7. death warmed up
  8. death warrant
  9. death warrants
  10. death whistle
  11. death whistles

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