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Definition: Sudden Death |
Sudden DeathNoun1. (sports) overtime in which play is stopped as soon as one contestant scores; e.g. football and golf. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | Cardiac arrest caused by an irregular heartbeat. The term "death" is somewhat misleading, because some patients survive. (references) |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Death | Euthanasia; break up of the system; natural death, natural decay; sudden death, violent death; untimely end, watery grave; debt of nature; suffocation, asphyxia; fatal disease. (disease); death blow. (killing). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Sudden Death |
| English words defined with "sudden death": encainide, Enkaid ♦ flecainide ♦ Tambocor. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "sudden death": bacillary haemoglobinuria, bacillary hemoglobinuria ♦ Clostridium haemolyticum infection, Crape ♦ Long QT Syndrome. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Sudden Death" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Swedish (sudden death). |
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Movie/TV Titles | And Sudden Death (1936) Sudden Death (1985) | |
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Julius Caesar | [In answer to a question as to what sort of death was the best] A sudden death. |
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Health | However, there is no way to determine who is prone to sudden death. (references) | |
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy patients also are at risk of sudden death. (references) | ||
Sudden death, including SIDS, is a major part of all postneonatal infant deaths. (references) | ||
Economic History | South Korea | The sudden death of North Korean leader Kim Il Sung on July 8, 1994, halted plans for a first-ever South-North presidential summit and led to another period of inter-Korean animosity. (references) |
Political Economy | Bahrain | Shaikh Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa is the Amir of Bahrain, having assumed this mantle in March 1999 after the sudden death of his father, Shaikh Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa. (references) |
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Expressions using "sudden death": sudden death clause ♦ sudden death game ♦ sudden death match ♦ sudden death overtime. Additional references. | |
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| 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 |
sudden death | 51 |
sudden death record | 4 |
sudden death movie | 3 |
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| Language | Translations for "sudden death"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | shtesë loje në rast barazimi, vdekje e papritur. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | nenadálá smrt, náhlý skon. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | klausul i tilfælde af pludseligt dødsfald (sudden death clause). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | sudden death-clausule (sudden death clause). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | point décisif (sudden death game, sudden death match), disposition dans un traité de réassurance permettant l'une des deux parties de se dégager immédiatement et toute époque,notamment si le cédant ou le réassureur apporte des modifications importantes ses statuts,entre en liquidation,passe so (sudden death clause), clause dite de mort subite (sudden death clause), but décisif (sudden death game, sudden death match). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Plötzlicher-Tod-Klausel (sudden death clause). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ρήτρα ξαφνικού θανάτου (sudden death clause). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | hirtelen halál. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | tempo supplementare (overtime), rigori a oltranza. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 急逝 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | きゅうせい (acute, astrology, former home, former make, former manufacture, horoscope, old home, old nest, old order, old system, one's formername, salvation), きゅうし (bow and arrow, cessation, dying in miserable circumstances, express messenger, historic ruins, historic site, molar, narrowly averting death, one's old master, one's old teacher, pause, rest, ruins), サドンデス , とつぜ"し, と"し. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | baase gyn saggyrt. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | uddensay eathday cláusula da falência (sudden death clause). (various references) moarte subitã. (various references) скоропостижная смерть. (various references) naprasna smrt. (various references) cláusula de muerte súbita (sudden death clause). (various references) sudden death. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-d-d-e-e-h-n-s-t-u" | |
-2 letters: denudated, denudates. | |
-3 letters: denudate, desanded, enthused, hastened, saddened, unheated, unseated, unshaded. | |
-4 letters: addends, dasheen, daunted, deadens, deadest, deashed, denuded, denudes, dudeens, duendes, enthuse, ethanes, haddest, handset, haunted, headset, sauteed, sedated, shedded, shunted, snedded, standee, steaded, studded, thudded, undated, unsated. | |
-5 letters: addend, aeneus, anteed, dashed, daunts, dauted, deaden, deaned, deaths, dedans, dented, denude, desand, dudeen. | |
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