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death ray

noun

  1. a hypothetical ray that destroys life from a distance.


death ray

noun

  1. an imaginary ray capable of killing
“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 death ray1

First recorded in 1915–20
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Example Sentences

Our longstanding fear, it seems, turns out to be about as valid as the death ray deployed by Buck Rogers in comic strips.

One of them was the terrible electric death-ray, capable of destroying anything in its path.

Unless the three men missing from the construction camp had died of it, however, it was not to be considered a death ray.

Teuxical, as I understand it, just gave you a slight shock with his death-ray device.

The gray scales had turned dead black in the area where the death-ray had struck him.

They have that death ray, but it's not quite as deadly as we might have feared, solely because our ships could outmaneuver them.

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