grim reaper
死神,收割机,收割者,死神降临
Definitions
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- : the personification of death as a man or cloaked skeleton holding a scythe.
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
These were conversations that took a fairly grim twist pretty quickly.
The Air Force has enough MQ-1 Predator and MQ-9 Reaper drones.
The grim instability of shelter life is hardly a recipe for success under the best of circumstances.
But if the goal is to maintain any hope—grim as it is— for serious negotiations leading to a two state solution.
Alan Gross was in a cheery mood, having survived a grim five-year stint in a Cuban prison.
But Ulm was only the commencement of the campaign, and even after Austerlitz Napoleon pursued the enemy with grim resolution.
War turns them from making the glittering superfluities of peace to making its grim engines of destruction.
As he read, a look of surprise came over his face, and then his countenance grew stern and grim.
Taking his stand at the end of the desk, he made MacRae reiterate in detail the grim happenings of that night.
By every art known to the wily Porter did he try to mislead his pursuers; but they hung on to his trail like grim death.