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Definition: DEATH RATTLE |
DEATH RATTLE1. A rattling or gurgling in the throat of a dying person. |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Death | Death warrant, death watch, death rattle, death bed; stroke of death, agonies of death, shades of death, valley of death, jaws of death, hand of death; last breath, last gasp, last agonies; dying day, dying breath, dying agonies; chant du cygne; rigor mortis; Stygian shore. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Boyes | Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
Expressions using "DEATH RATTLE": give a death rattle ♦ give the death rattle. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
death rattle | 32 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "DEATH RATTLE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | voltë, grahmë (agony, death pangs, death throes, throe, whiff). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | предсмъртно хъркане (rattle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | râle d'agonie, affres de la mort (pang of death, throes of death). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | röcheln (give the death rattle, groan, rattle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ρόγχος (rhonchus). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | halálhörgés. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | rantolo (rattle, wheeze). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eathday attleray horcãit de moarte. (various references) предсмертный хрип (death-rattle). (various references) samrtni ropac, ropac. (various references) estertor (rattle). (various references) dödsrossling. (various references) can çekişme hırıltısı. (various references) передсмертний хрип. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Amanita phalloïdes, singultus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-d-e-e-h-l-r-t-t-t" | |
-3 letters: haltered, lathered, tattered, threated. | |
-4 letters: aerated, alerted, altered, athlete, dealate, earthed, haltere, hearted, hetaera, laterad, leather, rattled, related, tartlet, tattled, tattler, theater, theatre, thereat, treadle, treated, trehala. | |
-5 letters: adhere, aerate, aether, alated, althea, daleth, dartle, dealer, dearth, delate, derate, elated, elater, halted, halter, hartal, hatred, hatted, hatter, header, healed, healer, heated, heater, herald. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-d-e-e-h-l-r-t-t-t" | |
+2 letters: tetartohedral. | |
+3 letters: stadtholderate. | |
+4 letters: stadtholderates, tetramethyllead. | |
+5 letters: tetramethylleads. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Usage: Commercial 3. Quotations: Familiar 4. Expressions | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Translations: Ancient 8. Anagrams | 9. Bibliography |
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