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

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