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sudden death

noun

, Sports.

an overtime period in which a tied contest is won and play is stopped immediately after one of the contestants scores, as in football, or goes ahead, as in golf.

sudden death

(in sports, etc) an extra game or contest to decide the winner of a tied competition
an unexpected or quick death

First recorded in 1825–35

Jam is there because of the sudden death of her boyfriend, Reeve, and the listless state of major depression it throws her into.

In November 1885, the sudden death of her eighteen year-old daughter, Annie, brought Mandelbaum back to New York City.

“The death is being treated as a non-suspicious, but unexplained, sudden death,” a spokesman said.

But before celebrating, please note, there is a plausible basis for sudden death from cannabis.

And if so, can it cause you to literally drop dead from that ominous condition called “sudden death”?

They were a well-matched pair; iron-nerved, both of them, the sort of men to face sudden death open-eyed and unafraid.

His sudden death a year ago came as a great blow to his family and a large circle of friends.

Diotti divined that something beyond sympathy for old Sanders sudden death racked her soul.

Reduced to suffering by the sudden death of her husband, she concealed her misfortunes under the name of Mme. Charlotte.

This was the first intimation to Lucy Warrender's friends in London of her sudden death.

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