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  1. at death's door love

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  1. idiomatic About to die; in a life-threatening state of health.

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  • “One of my Polynesian sailors lay at death's door with blackwater fever.”

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Words with the same meaning

  1. knocking on heaven's door
  1. on one's deathbed

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. polyptoton
  1. gates of death
  1. death

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