DEATH RATTLE

  

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DEATH RATTLE

Definition: DEATH RATTLE

DEATH RATTLE

1. A rattling or gurgling in the throat of a dying person.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Synonyms within Context: DEATH RATTLE

ContextSynonyms 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.

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Commercial Usage: DEATH RATTLE

DomainTitle

Books

  • Cry of the Phoenix: Death Rattle of Freedom: The Plan 2000 (The Phoenix Journals) (reference)

  • Death Rattle (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: DEATH RATTLE

AuthorQuotation

Boyes

Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Expressions: DEATH RATTLE

Expressions using "DEATH RATTLE": give a death rattle give the death rattle. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: DEATH RATTLE

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

death rattle

32
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: DEATH RATTLE

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

   

Romanian

  

horcãit de moarte. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

предсмертный хрип (death-rattle). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

samrtni ropac, ropac. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

estertor (rattle). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

dödsrossling. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

can çekişme hırıltısı. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

передсмертний хрип. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: DEATH RATTLE

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

Amanita phalloïdes, singultus. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Anagrams: DEATH RATTLE

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

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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