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(idiomatic) A condition of suffering, solitude, or impairment so extreme as to deprive one's existence of all happiness and meaning.

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living death

Source Word

living death

Noun

idiomatic uncountable usually

Japanese Meaning

極度の苦痛や孤独、障害に襲われ、生活から幸福と意味が失われた状態 / 生きながら死に至るような、心身ともに極限まで苦しむ状態

After years trapped in the hospital, she called her condition a living death.

何年も病院に閉じ込められた後、彼女は自分の状態を生きながらの死のようだと表現した。

Sense（1）

Lady Anne: Never hung poison on a fouler toad.

Out of my sight! thou dost infect my eyes.

Gloucester: Thine eyes, sweet lady, have infected mine.

Lady Anne: Would they were basilisks, to strike thee dead!

Gloucester: I would they were, that I might die at once;

For now they kill me with a living death.

living deaths

（ plural ）