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feel like death

feel like death verb: to feel extremely bad, sick, exhausted, or worn out.

Verb

feel like death (third-person singular simple present feels like death, present participle feeling like death, simple past and past participle felt like death)

  1. (idiomatic, informal) To feel extremely bad, sick, exhausted, or worn out.

Forms of feel like death

third-person singular presentfeels like death
present participlefeeling like death
past participlefelt like death
pastfelt like death

Questions about feel like death

What does feel like death mean?
Feel like death means to feel extremely bad, sick, exhausted, or worn out.
What part of speech is feel like death?
Feel like death is a verb.
What is the past tense of feel like death?
The past tense of feel like death is felt like death.

Words near feel like death in the dictionary

  1. feel for
  2. feel free
  3. feel in one's water
  4. feel in one's waters
  5. feel like
  6. feel like death
  7. feel like oneself
  8. feel nine feet tall
  9. feel no pain
  10. feel one's legs
  11. feel one's oats

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