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living death
noun
- a completely miserable, joyless existence, experience, situation, etc.; ordeal:
He found the steaming jungle a living death.
living death
noun
- a life or lengthy experience of constant misery
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Word History and Origins
Origin of living death1
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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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