Life-and-death Definition

līfən-dĕth
adjective
Involving or ending in life or death.
A mongoose in a life-and-death battle with a cobra.
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Life-or-death.

Webster's New World
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.

  • 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.

  • The martyrs were the local heroes of particular communities; but there were men whose life and death were of significance for the whole of Christendom - the apostles.

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Words Starting With L and Ending With H

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14 Letter Words14 Letter Words Starting With L14 Letter Words Ending With H