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Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Death-bednoun

    The bed to which a man is confined by mortal sickness.

    Etymology: death and bed.

    Sweet soul, take heed, take heed of perjury;
    Thou art on thy death-bed. William Shakespeare, Othello.

    Thy death-bed is no lesser than the land,
    Wherein thou liest in reputation sick. William Shakespeare, Richard II.

    These are such things as a man shall remember with joy upon his death-bed; such as shall chear and warm his heart, even in that last and bitter agony. Robert South, Sermons.

    Then round our death-bed ev’ry friend should run,
    And joyous of our conquest early won. John Dryden, Fables.

    A death-bed figure is certainly the most humbling sight in the world. Jeremy Collier, on the Value of Life.

    A death-bed repentance ought not indeed to be neglected, because it is the last thing that we can do. Francis Atterbury, Serm.

    Fame can never make us lie down contentedly on a death-bed. Alexander Pope.

Wikipedia

  1. death bed

    A deathbed is a place where a person dies or lies during the last few hours before death.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of death bed in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of death bed in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of death bed in a Sentence

  1. Rooma Mehra:

    If you have made a difference to even one life before you die, your living has not been in vain. When you are lying on your death bed, which we all will one day. If your conscience is guiltless and there is a smile on your face, you have made a difference.

  2. Laura Lawson:

    I knew I was capable of a lot more than I was doing and had been stuck in a rut: Work, sleep, Xbox, the thought of being on my death bed -- having spent my whole life like I had been -- scared me and I wanted no regrets.

  3. Don Fischer:

    Thats not what I was trying to say, i dont mean to intimate in any way shape or form that hes on his death bed. Thats not the case that I know of. Just that his health has declined.

  4. Deputy Culture Minister Piotr Zuchowski:

    On the death bed, this person communicated the information together with a sketch, where this might possibly be.

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