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

The jury trial of James Barbier, who is charged with killing 18-year-old Karen Snider in 1966, began Tuesday, almost 60 years after Snider was stabbed to death at her home in Calumet City. — Evy Lewis, Chicago Tribune, 3 Nov. 2026

Pike was sentenced to death for the 1995 murder of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer, a fellow participant in a Job Corps training program in Knoxville. — Louis Casiano, FOXNews.com, 3 Nov. 2026

Authorities sentenced Pike to death after she was convicted of luring Slemmer to her death with two others then beating and slashing her with a box cutter. — Lia Russell, Sacbee.com, 2 Nov. 2026

She was bound, beaten, and naked — strangled to death by one of her stockings. — Brenna Ehrlich, Rolling Stone, 2 Nov. 2026

Rhymes for to death

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