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  • noun The time when a person dies. Especially as determined for tax purposes.

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Examples

  • A final immersion -- his lungs now so vast that he squats on the riverbed for what seems a night-watch, a fortnight, a lifetime, a deathtime: snails clinging to his ankles, minnows darting between his legs as if they were reeds --

    Evan Eisenberg: Mary Christ (Part 2) 2008

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