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synonyms for living death

  • death in life
  • hell
  • hell on earth
  • purgatory
  • suffering
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On this page you'll find 5 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to living death, such as: death in life, hell, hell on earth, purgatory, and suffering.

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How to use living death in a sentence

She must go to Portsmouth;—which she knew was tantamount to a living death.
AN OLD MAN'S LOVEANTHONY TROLLOPE
To live alone, without a loving wife to share one's joys and sorrows, is not living at all: it is a sort of living death.
FILE NO. 113EMILE GABORIAU
Let her die unknown—nay, make of herself a living death—that he may increase and fill the mouths of men.
JOAN OF THE SWORD HANDS(AMUEL) R(UTHERFORD) CROCKETT
During this time her condition was but a living death, though she was physically well.
THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY, VOLUME 14, NO. 86, DECEMBER, 1864VARIOUS
What a glorious contrast to the grave-like stillness of the convent,—to the living death of a poor nun's existence!
SIR JASPER CAREWCHARLES JAMES LEVER
For without brotherly love and kindly human interest, laws are but cast-iron rules, and life but a living death.
LONDON'S UNDERWORLDTHOMAS HOLMES
She saw nothing but loss and the hollowness of a living death behind that closed door.
THE MILLIONAIRE BABYANNA KATHARINE GREEN
Valuable in society, at home the reticent are so many forms of living death.
THE GIRL OF THE PERIOD AND OTHER SOCIAL ESSAYS, VOL. II (OF 2)ELIZA LYNN LINTON
Were you tarred with the same brush as those canting snobs who doomed a poor old man to a living death?
A MILLIONAIRE OF YESTERDAYE. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM
How well that word had been chosen to describe and conceal the living death which this man had suffered!
THE REST HOLLOW MYSTERYREBECCA N. PORTER
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OCTOBER 26, 1985
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