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to death
Idioms and Phrases
To an extreme or intolerable degree, as in I am tired to death of these fund-raising phone calls , or That movie just thrilled me to death . This hyperbolic phrase is used as an intensifier. Also see sick and tired ; tired out . [c. 1300]Example Sentences
To borrow from media theorist and cultural critic Neil Postman, the American people “amused themselves to death” and put Donald Trump back in the White House.
"She was bludgeoned to death for no apparent reason. She'd been handcuffed. Nothing appears to have been stolen from the house and there was no sexual motive."
Christopher Austin — who was convicted of second-degree murder in the killing of Fabio Sementilli — told jurors that he and Robert Baker stabbed the hairstylist to death after his wife left the door to the couple’s house unlocked.
Four men have been charged with murdering a woman who was shot to death in her own home two and a half years ago.
Returning to death sentences is “a terrible idea,” Michael Romano, a Stanford law professor and chair of the California Committee on the Revision of the Penal Code, told me, and I couldn’t agree more.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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