near-death experience
a sensation or vision, as of the afterlife, reported by a person who has come close to death. Abbreviation: nde, NDE
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How to use near-death experience in a sentence
Even I, despite my near-death experience, esteem nurse practitioners highly.
Clearly, this is not the near-death experience we typically hear about.
British Dictionary definitions for near-death experience
an experience, instances of which have been widely reported, in which a person near death is apparently outside his body and aware of it and the attendant circumstances as separate from him: Abbreviation: NDE
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