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  *死* | 死* | *死
to die / impassable / uncrossable / inflexible / rigid / extremely / damned
HSK 3
life or death
HSK 7-9
lit. to be born, to grow old, to get sick and to die (idiom) / fig. the fate of humankind (i.e. mortality)
necrosis
to kill / to beat to death
to kill
to starve to death / to be very hungry
to burn to death
to die by violence
to kill with an explosion
to drown
an execution / to put sb to death
nearing death / on the point of demise / approaching extinction
to block (a road) / to plug (a hole) / to stop up
rigid / unwavering / unbendable / firm (hold on sth) / tenacious
to pledge one's life
half dead (of torment, hunger, tiredness etc) / (tired) to death / (terrified) out of one's wits / (beaten) to within an inch of one's life / (knock) the daylights out of sb
Damn it! / damned / wretched
(medicine) to have an infarction
to strangle
to stab to death
to throttle / to choke to death
as if drunk or entranced (idiom); leading a befuddled existence / in a drunken stupor
to crush to death
to die suddenly
to drown
death by hanging / to hang oneself
to kill / to put to death
dying
lit. born in the morning and dying at dusk (idiom) / fig. ephemeral / transient
to freeze to death / to die off in winter
from the cradle to the grave (idiom); to go through fire and water / brave / willing to risk life and limb
facing death / at death's door
to go all out for sth at risk of one's life
greedy for life, afraid of death (idiom); craven and cowardly / clinging abjectly to life / only interested in saving one's neck
to just escape from calamity
to die tragically / to meet with a violent death
to behead / capital punishment / desperate struggle / life-and-death
to attempt suicide / to court death
to die in tragic circumstances
to suffer an unjust death
suspended animation / feigned death / to play dead
to be scared of dying
to die suddenly
to die in a foreign land / to die abroad
to feign death / to fake death
bravery with no thought of personal safety (idiom); risking life and limb / undaunted by perils
to die in violence
to strangle / to throttle / to stifle (opinions)
go to hell! / drop dead!
to infuriate / to be furious / to die from an excess of anger
to crush to death
to knock down and kill (with a car, train etc)
to really hurt
to die while still relatively young / to have been dead (for some years)
Geez! / Shoot! / No way!
to electrocute / to die from an electric shock
to fall to one's death / to kill by throwing to the ground
to say definitely / to commit (to a proposition)
to nail securely / to execute by means of impalement / to crucify
to die of old age
completely / utterly (dialect)
to beat to death
to execute by hanging / to hang oneself
to be buried alive as sacrifice (together with husband or superior)
to hard code (computing)
(idiom) to experience sheer ecstasy (or, when used ironically, sheer hell)
to risk one's life
jammed / stuck / frozen (computer)
to brave death
euthanasia
(neologism c. 2020) (slang) to die of embarrassment (figuratively)
to hack to death / to kill with an ax
to grieve to death / to die of a broken-heart
serves you right for doing sth so stupid (Internet slang)
myocardial infarction / heart attack
(intransitive) to choke to death
to cause death; to be lethal; to be deadly
to die of hunger or disease (of a prisoner)
cerebral infarction
sudden death (play-off in sporting competition)
to meet death
lit. not to stop until one reaches the Yellow River (idiom) / fig. to persevere until one reaches one's goal / to keep going while some hope is left
to deal a single fatal blow / (fig.) to totally repudiate sb because of a minor error
give me liberty or give me death
"he failed to complete his quest before death" (line from the poem "The Premier of Shu" 蜀相 by Du Fu 杜甫)
(lit.) to wither in the light of day / (fig.) the bubble bursts as the reality becomes apparent (esp. of a much-anticipated first meeting with sb) / (of stocks) just as the favorable news is officially published, the stock price falls
nothing sadder than a withered heart (idiom attributed to Confucius by Zhuangzi 莊子|庄子) / no greater sorrow than a heart that never rejoices / the worst sorrow is not as bad as an uncaring heart / nothing is more wretched than apathy
immortality
to checkmate (in chess) / to be about to die
don't insist on only taking one road to Rome (idiom) / there's more than one way to skin a cat
extremely / awfully
to kill / to cause death / to do sb to death
(derog.) old but still alive / old fart / old bastard
to be looked after in life and given a proper burial thereafter (idiom)
cannot avoid being killed / cannot escape death / to be mortal
to stone to death
to court disaster / also pr. [zuo1si3]
(intransitive) to choke to death

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