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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Extra play added to determine the winner of a tied game, often with the victory awarded to the first to score.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Instantaneous, unexpected death not caused by violence.
  2. n. sports The climax of a game, in which the next team to score instantly wins; often in an extra period of time following a tie at the end of the regular period of play.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. (sports) overtime in which play is stopped as soon as one contestant scores; e.g. football and golf

Examples

  • “Bundy still accommodated dissent within his staff: his junior aide, East Asia expert James C. Thomson, Jr., would write a laudatory op-ed upon Bundys sudden death in 1996, highlighting how his boss tolerated and even encouraged his Vietnam skepticism at the very time Bundy himself was pressing for escalation.”

    Simon & Schuster: In the Shadow of the Oval Office

  • “Grantchester's pleasure in prolonging Quorn's agony had directly led to Quorn's sudden death … from heart failure, from stroke or from shock; one or another.”

    To The Hilt

  • “An excellent observer,12 in describing the behaviour of a girl at the sudden death of her father, says she "went about the house wringing her hands like a creature demented, saying ` It was her fault; '` I should never have left him;' ` If I had only sat up with him, '" &c.”

    The expression of the emotions in man and animals

  • “Some of the songs were old ones; but some of them were quite new and spoke confidently of the sudden death of the dragon and of cargoes of rich presents coming down the river to Lake-town.”

    The Hobbit

  • “Of these the little Fâ-ying (whose sudden death by cholera I have described) was her favorite; and after her death the faithful creature turned her dimmed eyes and chastened pride to the young prince Chulalonkorn.”

    The English Governess at the Siamese Court

  • “Instead of the enjoyment of comfort and rest, and days of busy companionship and revivifying hopes, there was the shock that sudden death inflicts, dramatic loneliness, dry-eyed grief, forced exertion, and the abandonment of brightening prospects.”

    The Confessions of a Beachcomber

  • “Joanna began thinking about noncardiac causes of sudden death in a middle-aged man.”

    Fatal Care

  • “This was nothing less than a notice of the sudden death of Mrs. Frederick Hampstead at a private asylum.”

    Death at the Opera

  • “A sad note was struck by the sudden death of old Coenus.”

    Simon & Schuster: Alexander the Great

  • ““Where is Adam?” but the sudden death of her husband had restored him in these hours to that first place in her affections which he had held six-and-twenty years ago.”

    Adam Bede

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