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- rites
- last rites
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deathwatch 的定义
- a vigil beside a dying or dead person.
- a guard set over a condemned person before execution.
- Also called deathwatch beetle. any of several beetles of the family Anobiidae that make a ticking sound as they bore through wood: the sound was once believed to be an omen of death.
deathwatch 近义词
等同于 wake
deathwatch 的近义词 5 个
更多deathwatch例句
- The deathwatch, like conscience, doth make cowards of us all.
- Every pulse-beat is in exact time with the cricket's chant and the tickings of the deathwatch in the wall.
- It sounds to me like the echoing tick, tick of some great beetle; like the sort of noise which a deathwatch makes, you know.
- A chulad was a small native pet, Korvin knew, something like a greatly magnified deathwatch beetle.
- In the wainscot of the room a deathwatch ticked its doleful omen.