deathbed
Use Deathbed in a sentence
noun
1.
the bed on which a person dies: The museum contains Lincoln's deathbed.
adjective
Idioms 2.
of, pertaining to, said, or done during the last few hours of a person's life: a deathbed confession.
3.
on one's deathbed, in the last few hours before death.
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| —n | |
| 1. | a. the bed in which a person is about to die |
| b. (as modifier): a deathbed conversion | |
| 2. | on one's deathbed about to die |
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Example sentences
She offers no festering family secrets, no deathbed revelations.
Years later, his stepdaughter admitted to committing the crime while on her deathbed.
Six months later he is summoned home to her deathbed.
When they reach their deathbed, they are forced to come to terms with their own mortality.
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