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to death

to death prepositional phrase: until death occurs; so as to cause or result in death.

Prepositional phrase

  1. (literally) Until death occurs; so as to cause or result in death.
    • bleed to death
    • freeze to death
  2. (excessive, degree) To a great degree; to the greatest degree possible, to excess.
    • I was bored to death in that meeting.
    • 1. Let us go to the wood, says this pig; 2. What to do there? says that pig; 3. To look for my mother, says this pig; 4. What to do with, her? says that pig; 5. Kiss her to death, says this pig.1805, Songs for the Nursery, page 5

to death meaning in Tamil

to death in Tamil

மிக அதிகமான, உச்ச வரம்பு வரை

Examples of to death in a sentence

  • “Do you know its two, and the man is to call for us at three with the boat, and the supper is cooked to death.”1843, Theodore S. Fay, chapter X, in Hoboken: A Romance of New York, volume 2, New York: Harper & Brothers, page 59:
  • He said that he was "tickled to death" to have a boy cousin.1915, Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson, The How and Why Library:
  • Irony is flattered to death by a mental muddle of such a nature and on such a scale.1933, Choudhary Rahmat Ali et al., Now or Never; Are We to Live or Perish Forever?:
  • Now, though, it was six-thirty—high time for them both to be back, whatever the trouble— and a roast cooking to death in the oven.1948, Albert E. Idell, The Great Blizzard, New York: Henry Holt and Company, page 174:

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Questions about to death

What does to death mean?
To death means until death occurs; so as to cause or result in death.
What is to death in Tamil?
To death in Tamil is மிக அதிகமான, உச்ச வரம்பு வரை. See To death meaning in Tamil.
How do you use to death in a sentence?
“Do you know its two, and the man is to call for us at three with the boat, and the supper is cooked to death.”
What part of speech is to death?
To death is a prepositional phrase.

Words near to death in the dictionary

  1. to boot
  2. to burn
  3. to come
  4. to date
  5. to day
  6. to death
  7. to die for
  8. to distraction
  9. to do with
  10. to each his own
  11. to each their own

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Adapted from Wiktionary: to death (page history and authors); to death (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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