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Deathbed

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The bed on which someone dies.

    "He was once on his way to an old woman, who was on her death-bed and who had led a wicked life."

  2. 2
    the bed on which a person dies wordnet
  3. 3
    The last hours before death.
  4. 4
    the last few hours before death wordnet
  5. 5
    A grave; the site of a burial or entombment.

    "“Will you ask our oldest warriors to build me a barrow? Ask them to climb this headland and build me a death pile high on its top. Let my deathbed rise high above Hronesnesse.”"

Etymology

From Middle English dethbed, from Old English dēaþbedd (“deathbed; grave”), equivalent to death + bed. Cognate with Swedish dödsbädd (“deathbed”). Compare also Dutch sterfbed (“deathbed”), German Sterbebett and Totenbett (both “deathbed”), Danish dødsleje (“deathbed”).

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