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EnglishTHE SCHOLAR'S LEXICON

angel of death

/az-ree-uhl, -rey-/US // ˈæz ri əl, -reɪ- //UK // (ˈæzreɪl, -rɪəl) //

死亡天使,死亡使者,死亡的天使,死神天使

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the angel who separates the soul from the body at the moment of death.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as inGrim Reaper
Synonyms
pale death苍白的死亡,苍白的死,苍白死亡,苍白无力的死亡reaper收割机,收割者,收割器,死神

Examples

  • The evil sorcerer Gargamel—and his cat Azrael—always hover nearby, in the hopes of kidnapping them.

  • Mrs. Patton was still in mourning, a filmy and diaphanous kind of mourning, beautiful enough to placate the angel Azrael himself.

  • Stretched out to her full length upon the ottoman lies Corsar Beg's favourite odalisk Azrael.

  • Azrael laughs aloud, and rocks herself still more swiftly in her bright-winged hammock.

  • Azrael, all tremulous, drew her veil around her neck, and with nervous irritability beckoned to the girls to be gone.

  • Azrael smiles, and rocks herself still more swiftly in her hammock.

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