knell
咒语,丧钟,铃声,敲钟
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Definitions
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- : the sound made by a bell rung slowly, especially for a death or a funeral.
- : a sound or sign announcing the death of a person or the end, extinction, failure, etc., of something: the knell of parting day.
- : any mournful sound.
- 1
- : to sound, as a bell, especially a funeral bell.
- : to give forth a mournful, ominous, or warning sound.
- 1
- : to proclaim or summon by, or as if by, a bell.
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Examples
The government wanted to reduce labor and costs, but many growers view the law as a quality death knell.
Last month, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton sounded what many considered to be the death knell for the SNC.
They wanted to sound the death knell for the campaign, file their stories, and get out of Memphis as soon as possible.
When you have somebody working for your campaign, like Grooms, who says you can't win, that is the death knell for a candidate.
I now consider it the death knell for traditional publishing.
A knell from the church bell broke harshly on these youthful thoughts.
The tones of the neighbouring convent bell, echoing through the stony vaults, sounded loud and awful as the knell of doom.
It is not so now, for when the blacks revolted and drove their masters from the land, the death-knell of civilisation was sounded.
When for mirth's yell earth's knell seemed pleaseSome dumb new grim great whim in him Made Jews take chalk for cheese.
This date this pupil translates by the phrase, “Dock knell all” .