to death

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]

Example Sentences

The brain is constantly changing in response to new knowledge and experience – but the research shows this is not one smooth pattern from birth to death.

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She was sentenced to death by an American military tribunal, but her sentence was commuted to life imprisonment before she was released on parole in April 1957.

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Deuteronomy 24:16 states: “Parents shall not be put to death for children, nor children be put to death for parents: a person shall be put to death only for his own crime.”

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“The Dream” also explores her complicated relationship to death following that debilitating bus accident, one of her signature themes.

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Five men were sentenced to death, but one of Khashoggi’s sons later announced that the family had forgiven the killers, which, in accordance with Islamic law, spared them from execution.

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