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Definition: Death Wish |
Death WishNoun1. (psychoanalysis) an unconscious urge to die. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: Death WishSynonym: death instinct (n). (additional references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Charles Bronson stars in Death Wish 9. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Death Wish (1974) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Theater & Movies | |
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 wish | 68 |
death wish 2 | 10 |
death wish 3 | 9 |
death wish movie | 5 |
death wish ii | 4 |
bronson charles death wish | 2 |
death wish 4 | 2 |
death wish dvd | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "death wish"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
German | Todeswunsch. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eathday ishway.(various references) | |
Russian | пожелание смерти. (various references) | |
Turkish | öldürülme bilinçaltı arzusu, ölüm arzusu. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Death Wish" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: deathwish. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-h-h-i-s-t-w" | |
-1 letter: whishted. | |
-2 letters: dawties, hadiths, swathed, waisted, whidahs, whished, whisted. | |
-3 letters: dawtie, deaths, hadith, hashed, hasted, heaths, histed, saithe, shawed, sheath, swathe, swithe, tawsed, thawed, wadies, wadset, waited, washed, wasted, wheats, whidah, whisht, whited, whites, widest, widths, wished, wisted, withed, withes. | |
-4 letters: adits, aides, ashed, aside, dashi, dates, dawts, deash, death, deist, diets, ditas, dites. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-h-h-i-s-t-w" | |
+1 letter: whiteheads. | |
+2 letters: whitewashed. | |
+3 letters: thitherwards. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Anagrams | 9. Bibliography |
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