to death

Idioms  

1. To an extreme or intolerable degree, as in I am tired to death of these fund-raising phone calls, or That movie just thrilled me to death. This hyperbolic phrase is used as an intensifier. Also see sick and tired; tired out. [c. 1300]

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to death

Its unveiling on Monday is the clearest indication so far of Kabila's direct involvement in an armed movement a year after he was sentenced to death in absentia for treason.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

Scholars have claimed that there is something very different about the visceral experience of witnessing the state putting someone to death and the experience of watching that happen on television or a video feed.

From Slate ● Oct. 9, 2026

She was sentenced to death, but that sentence was commuted to life in prison with the possibility of parole after the death penalty was ruled unconstitutional in 1972.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026

Nidal Hasan, a U.S.-born Muslim who worked at the base as a psychiatrist, was sentenced to death in 2013 by a jury of fellow officers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

They were still stuck at the base where Zhenya Prokhorova froze to death after her crash in thick fog.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein