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to die / impassable / uncrossable / inflexible / rigid / extremely / damned
HSK 3
myocardial infarction / heart attack
to stone to death
to kill
cannot avoid being killed / cannot escape death / to be mortal
to brave death
serves you right for doing sth so stupid (Internet slang)
life or death
HSK 7-9
to hack to death / to kill with an ax
dying
from the cradle to the grave (idiom); to go through fire and water / brave / willing to risk life and limb
to pledge one's life
to knock down and kill (with a car, train etc)
to risk one's life
necrosis
to kill / to put to death
to suffer an unjust death
jammed / stuck / frozen (computer)
mortal
an execution / to put sb to death
to court disaster / also pr. [zuo1si3]
to grieve to death / to die of a broken-heart
hands tied and expecting the worst
(neologism c. 2020) (slang) to die of embarrassment (figuratively)
euthanasia
(intransitive) to choke to death
to kill with an explosion
greedy for life, afraid of death (idiom); craven and cowardly / clinging abjectly to life / only interested in saving one's neck
lit. to be born, to grow old, to get sick and to die (idiom) / fig. the fate of humankind (i.e. mortality)
suspended animation / feigned death / to play dead
to drown
to throw away one's life
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!
bravery with no thought of personal safety (idiom); risking life and limb / undaunted by perils
to kill / to beat to death
Decis (insecticide brand)
to crush to death
to drown
don't insist on only taking one road to Rome (idiom) / there's more than one way to skin a cat
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
to kill / to cause death / to do sb to 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 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 just escape from calamity
to stab to death
to die of old age
full to the point of bursting / (coll.) at most
to say definitely / to commit (to a proposition)
to throttle / to choke to death
(medicine) to have an infarction
cerebral infarction
to cause death; to be lethal; to be deadly
rigid / unwavering / unbendable / firm (hold on sth) / tenacious
give me liberty or give me death
to risk one's life
to nail securely / to execute by means of impalement / to crucify
extremely / awfully
to strangle
death by hanging / to hang oneself
to die of hunger or disease (of a prisoner)
to crush to death
to feign death / to fake death
karoshi (loanword from Japanese), death from overwork
as if drunk or entranced (idiom); leading a befuddled existence / in a drunken stupor
to deal a single fatal blow / (fig.) to totally repudiate sb because of a minor error
to fall ill and die / to die of illness
to freeze to death / to die off in winter
to checkmate (in chess) / to be about to die
to die suddenly
to die by violence
to fall to one's death / to kill by throwing to the ground
(idiom) to experience sheer ecstasy (or, when used ironically, sheer hell)
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
to beat to death
nearing death / on the point of demise / approaching extinction
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
Damn it! / damned / wretched
to burn to death
to hang (i.e. execute by hanging) / to strangle
to be looked after in life and given a proper burial thereafter (idiom)
sudden death (play-off in sporting competition)
to die tragically / to meet with a violent death
to infuriate / to be furious / to die from an excess of anger
to really hurt
to play dead
anemic necrosis
(derog.) old but still alive / old fart / old bastard

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