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  *死* | 死* | *死
to die / impassable / uncrossable / inflexible / rigid / extremely / damned
HSK 3
(of a plant) to wither and die; withered and dead
myocardial infarction / heart attack
to be looked after in life and given a proper burial thereafter (idiom)
to feign death / to fake death
to nail securely / to execute by means of impalement / to crucify
cannot avoid being killed / cannot escape death / to be mortal
bravery with no thought of personal safety (idiom); risking life and limb / undaunted by perils
to brave death
to kill
life or death
HSK 7-9
to hack to death / to kill with an ax
facing death / at death's door
Damn it! / damned / wretched
dying
from the cradle to the grave (idiom); to go through fire and water / brave / willing to risk life and limb
don't insist on only taking one road to Rome (idiom) / there's more than one way to skin a cat
to pledge one's life
to knock down and kill (with a car, train etc)
to risk one's life
mortal
to checkmate (in chess) / to be about to die
full to the point of bursting / (coll.) at most
to kill / to put to death
to suffer an unjust death
jammed / stuck / frozen (computer)
to just escape from calamity
to freeze to death / to die off in winter
to crush to death
to court disaster / also pr. [zuo1si3]
hands tied and expecting the worst
(neologism c. 2020) (slang) to die of embarrassment (figuratively)
cerebral infarction
serves you right for doing sth so stupid (Internet slang)
(intransitive) to choke to death
to kill with an explosion
lit. to be born, to grow old, to get sick and to die (idiom) / fig. the fate of humankind (i.e. mortality)
karoshi (loanword from Japanese), death from overwork
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 hang (i.e. execute by hanging) / to strangle
suspended animation / feigned death / to play dead
to drown
to throw away one's life
to starve to death / to be very hungry
to block (a road) / to plug (a hole) / to stop up
to be buried alive as sacrifice (together with husband or superior)
to court death; to take a big risk
go to hell! / drop dead!
greedy for life, afraid of death (idiom); craven and cowardly / clinging abjectly to life / only interested in saving one's neck
immortality
to kill / to beat to death
to drown
to go all out for sth at risk of one's life
to hard code (computing)
to strangle / to throttle / to stifle (opinions)
to be scared of dying
to hound sb to death
give me liberty or give me death
to kill / to cause death / to do sb to death
to behead / capital punishment / desperate struggle / life-and-death
to attempt suicide / to court death
to die while still relatively young / to have been dead (for some years)
to execute by hanging / to hang oneself
to stab to death
to die of old age
euthanasia
to throttle / to choke to death
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
(medicine) to have an infarction
to cause death; to be lethal; to be deadly
as if drunk or entranced (idiom); leading a befuddled existence / in a drunken stupor
to electrocute / to die from an electric shock
rigid / unwavering / unbendable / firm (hold on sth) / tenacious
to risk one's life
Geez! / Shoot! / No way!
sudden death (play-off in sporting competition)
extremely / awfully
to strangle
death by hanging / to hang oneself
to die of hunger or disease (of a prisoner)
to crush to death
"he failed to complete his quest before death" (line from the poem "The Premier of Shu" 蜀相 by Du Fu 杜甫)
to deal a single fatal blow / (fig.) to totally repudiate sb because of a minor error
to burn to death
to fall ill and die / to die of illness
to die suddenly
to fall to one's death / to kill by throwing to the ground
(idiom) to experience sheer ecstasy (or, when used ironically, sheer hell)
to die in violence
to say definitely / to commit (to a proposition)
to beat to death
anemic necrosis
to die tragically / to meet with a violent death
lit. such a fool as to die from holding in one's pee (idiom) / fig. unable to solve a problem due to the inflexibility of one's thinking
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
(intransitive) to choke to death
to die in tragic circumstances
to put to death
necrosis

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