living death Meaning of "living death"

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Definition(s):

  • (n) a state of constant misery

Usage(s):

  1. But her parents are suffering, for it is they who live with her living death.
  2. A special session of Congress met to pass sentence of death on La Prensa by expropriating it, then hesitated and decided instead to condemn the paper to a living death.
  3. Condemned to years of living death in Mzensk, the heroine commits three murders to relieve her boredom.
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