à la mort

[ a la -mawr ]

/ a la ˈmɔr /

French.

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adjective

mortally ill.

melancholy; dispirited.

adverb

grievously; fatally.

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Origin of à la mort

Literally, “to the death”

Words nearby à la mort

Alamein, à l'américaine, alamo, alamode, Alamogordo, à la mort, Alan, ala nasi, Alanbrooke, à l'ancienne, Åland Islands

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Now-a-days it is the bankrupt who flouts, and his too confiding creditors who are jeered and laughed at.
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He felt himself the meanest, vilest thing a-crawl upon this sinful earth, and she—dear God!
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All that scientific bric-a-brac in the cupboard had far better be thrown away.
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Edmund de la Pole, earl of Suffolk, on account of his near relationship to the house of York, beheaded.
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