Life-and-death meaning

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Involving or ending in life or death.

A mongoose in a life-and-death battle with a cobra.

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Vitally important.

A life-and-death struggle between union and management.

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Life-and-death Sentence Examples

  • You said it was a matter of life and death.

  • She's in a stasis right now, caught between life and death.

  • See The Life and Death of Mr Vavasor Powell (1671), attributed to Edward Bagshaw the younger; Vavasoris Examen et Purgamen (1654), by E.

  • It was the religious expression of the unity of Israel which the life and death struggle with the Philistines had gradually wrought out.

  • His military authority was confined to Italy; and his power of life and death over the citizens was at an early period limited by law.

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