to death

phrase

: beyond endurance : excessively

bored to death

scared to death of spiders

I am sick to death of hearing your excuses.

Most high rollers prefer Atlantic City and Las Vegas, where they are comped to death and have more diversions.

—William G. Flanagan et al.

Examples of to death in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Jake Reiner, the eldest son of the late Rob and Michele Reiner, spoke out about his parents’ deaths for the first time since his filmmaker father and photographer mother were found stabbed to death in their Los Angeles home. — Molly Parks, The Washington Examiner, 27 Aug. 2026

Prosecutors allege that Clancy planned the killings by sending her husband out to do errands and then strangling the children to death with exercise bands while he was gone. — N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA Today, 26 Aug. 2026

The 36-year-old Massachusetts mother strangled her three children to death; a jury will decide whether to accept her insanity defense. — Violet Jira, Washington Post, 26 Aug. 2026

Cops say Acosta shot 44-year-old MD Yousuf to death moments after midnight Sunday inside American Best Wings & Pizza on Rockaway Ave. — Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 25 Aug. 2026

Rhymes for to death

• beth
• breath
• heth
• lethe
• meth
• neath
• seth
• sheth
• sneath
• shibboleth