living death

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noun

a completely miserable, joyless existence, experience, situation, etc.; ordeal: He found the steaming jungle a living death.

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Origin of living death

First recorded in 1665–75

Words nearby living death

lividity, living, living bandage, living bank, living daylights, living death, living fossil, living history, living picture, living room, living soul

How to use living death in a sentence

He was saying that a kind of living death had come to him with the loss.
Nidal Hasan Deserves the Death Sentence the Fort Hood Jury Imposed|Michael Daly|August 28, 2013|DAILY BEAST
She must go to Portsmouth;—which she knew was tantamount to a living death.
An Old Man's Love|Anthony Trollope
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.
File No. 113|Emile Gaboriau
Let her die unknown—nay, make of herself a living death—that he may increase and fill the mouths of men.
Joan of the Sword Hand|S(amuel) R(utherford) Crockett

During this time her condition was but a living death, though she was physically well.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 86, December, 1864|Various
What a glorious contrast to the grave-like stillness of the convent,—to the living death of a poor nun's existence!
Sir Jasper Carew|Charles James Lever

British Dictionary definitions for living death

living death

noun

a life or lengthy experience of constant misery

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living death

Origin of living death

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