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living death

noun

  1. a completely miserable, joyless existence, experience, situation, etc.; ordeal:

    He found the steaming jungle a living death.



living death

noun

  1. a life or lengthy experience of constant misery
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of living death1

First recorded in 1665–75
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Example Sentences

He was saying that a kind of living death had come to him with the loss.

She must go to Portsmouth;—which she knew was tantamount to a living death.

To live alone, without a loving wife to share one's joys and sorrows, is not living at all: it is a sort of living death.

Let her die unknown—nay, make of herself a living death—that he may increase and fill the mouths of men.

During this time her condition was but a living death, though she was physically well.

What a glorious contrast to the grave-like stillness of the convent,—to the living death of a poor nun's existence!

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