Definition of deathbed
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: the bed in which a person dies
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: the last hours of life
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My 86-year-old grandmother was literally on her deathbed in June of 2014.
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Other provocative Benetton advertisements by Mr. Toscani include a nun kissing a priest, an AIDS patient on his deathbed and Pope Benedict XVI kissing an Egyptian imam.
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Zhadan’s apostles encounter one another at weddings, funerals, bars, and deathbeds.
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Jackson was comforting his 4-year-old sister, Addy, on her deathbed.
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Even on his deathbed, Hamilton reportedly admitted to not setting the hair trigger, providing compelling evidence that the former Treasury secretary didn't have any deadly intentions that July day.
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An autopsy team is therefore always on call to attend a volunteer’s deathbed, collect samples from his organs and bring them back to a laboratory at UCSD for cryogenic preservation.
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At the foot of his deathbed, another monolith looms over his decrepit body, and he is transformed into a fetus in an amniotic sac, hovering over the Earth with his eyes wide open.
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His loving and tormented relationship with Big Angel, the older brother who broke his nose in a fistfight but who wants him to crawl into his deathbed, is one of the many touching relationships rendered with grace and empathy by Urrea.
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First Known Use of deathbed
before 12th century
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Definition of deathbed for Students
: the bed a person dies in
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on someone's deathbed
: very close to death
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