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living death

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living death
n.
A situation or period of time characterized by unremitting pain and suffering.
living death
n
a life or lengthy experience of constant misery
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Noun1.living death - a state of constant misery
miserableness, misery, wretchedness - a state of ill-being due to affliction or misfortune; "the misery and wretchedness of those slums is intolerable"


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Or, had he found that he had been too late, and thus gone back to a living death upon a dead world?
The Gods of Mars by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
So it was, when the doom of fifty years of living death was uttered by Judge Scott, that Jim Hall, hating all things in the society that misused him, rose up and raged in the court-room until dragged down by half a dozen of his blue-coated enemies.
White Fang by London, Jack View in context
The shark dropped back into the sea, helpless, yet with its full strength, doomed--to lingering starvation--a living death less meet for it than for the man who devised the punishment.
The Sea Wolf by London, Jack View in context
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