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Princeton's WordNet

  1. desperate, do-or-die(a)adjective

    desperately determined

    "do-or-die revolutionaries"; "a do-or-die conflict"

Wiktionary

  1. do-or-dieadjective

    Requiring a determined or desperate effort to avoid the consequences of failure.

ChatGPT

  1. do-or-die

    "Do-or-die" is an idiomatic expression referring to a critical situation or task where one must go all out and succeed or face devastating failure. This term is usually used to describe a course of action that is seen as extremely necessary or crucial, where there are only two possible outcomes: success or failure. The phrase implies that there is no middle ground or the option of giving up, making it a very high-stakes situation.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of do-or-die in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of do-or-die in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of do-or-die in a Sentence

  1. Gary Watts:

    Those that die outside of the hospital, if we don't get them tested, not only do we not get the information in terms of correct data, but we're not getting the information that's lifesaving to those who were potentially exposed, and families always want to know what happened to their loved ones.

  2. Gregg Hudson:

    There are those who would rather see elephants die than live in accredited zoos. We strongly disagree with that position.

  3. Chief Paul Berardi:

    It's difficult when you live with somebody for 24 hours a day, and you're laughing and joking one minute and then something like this happens in the line of duty, what's good for their families to remember is that they did not die in vain.

  4. William Dombi the president:

    By our estimations, there are tens of thousands of actively infected COVID patients under the care of home care providers today. We’ve also seen deaths.. we have had home care workers die from COVID-19.

  5. Abdul Hamid:

    I am crying, but these are tears of joy, my kids aren't the first kids to die.


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