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living death
noun
- a completely miserable, joyless existence, experience, situation, etc.; ordeal:
He found the steaming jungle a living death.
living death
noun
- a life or lengthy experience of constant misery
Word History and Origins
Origin of living death1
Example Sentences
Under constant surveillance by her master, Jacobs similarly wrote, “I had rather live and die in jail than drag on, from day to day, through such a living death.”
The judge at the trial of his attackers said the teenager was suffering a "living death".
She says for people with loved ones inside a cult, "it's like a living death" - partly because attempts to criticise the group often backfire, leaving them unsure how to act.
Some people think comas are easy to recover from or—conversely—a living death.
“In the end I realize there is the possibility facing three life sentences, which could become a living death for me,” wrote Hernández, who left office in January at the conclusion of his second term.
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