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sign one's death warrant

sign one's death warrant verb: to make a decision that dooms one to certain death.

Verb

sign one's death warrant (third-person singular simple present signs one's death warrant, present participle signing one's death warrant, simple past and past participle signed one's death warrant)

  1. To make a decision that dooms one to certain death.
    • Think — what have I got for Ireland? Something which she has wanted these past seven hundred years. Will anyone be satisfied at the bargain? Will anyone? I tell you this; early this morning I signed my death warrant. I thought at the time how odd, how ridiculous — a bullet may just as well have...1921, Míchael Collins, after signing the Anglo-Irish Treaty

Forms of sign one's death warrant

third-person singular presentsigns one's death warrant
present participlesigning one's death warrant
past participlesigned one's death warrant
pastsigned one's death warrant

Questions about sign one's death warrant

What does sign one's death warrant mean?
Sign one's death warrant means to make a decision that dooms one to certain death.
What part of speech is sign one's death warrant?
Sign one's death warrant is a verb.
What is the past tense of sign one's death warrant?
The past tense of sign one's death warrant is signed one's death warrant.

Words near sign one's death warrant in the dictionary

  1. sign offs
  2. sign on
  3. sign on bonus
  4. sign on bonuses
  5. sign on the dotted line
  6. sign one's death warrant
  7. sign one's own death warrant
  8. sign ons
  9. sign onto
  10. sign out
  11. sign over

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