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deathwatch 音标拼音: [d'ɛθw,ɑtʃ] n. 临终的看护,死囚的监守人 临终的看护,死囚的监守人 deathwatch n 1: minute wingless psocopterous insects injurious to books and papers [synonym: {booklouse}, {book louse}, {deathwatch}, {Liposcelis divinatorius}] 2: bores through wood making a ticking sound popularly thought to presage death [synonym: {deathwatch beetle}, {deathwatch}, {Xestobium rufovillosum}] Deathwatch \Death"watch`\ (?; 224), n. 1. (Zool.) (a) A small beetle ({Anobium tessellatum} and other allied species). By forcibly striking its head against woodwork it makes a ticking sound, which is a call of the sexes to each other, but has been imagined by superstitious people to presage death. (b) A small wingless insect, of the family {Psocid[ae]}, which makes a similar but fainter sound; -- called also {deathtick}. [1913 Webster] She is always seeing apparitions and hearing deathwatches. --Addison. [1913 Webster] I did not hear the dog howl, mother, or the deathwatch beat. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster] 2. The guard set over a criminal before his execution. [1913 Webster] 31 Moby Thesaurus words for "deathwatch":
agony, burial service, death agonies, death groan, death rattle, death struggle, death throes, deathbed, dirge, dying breath, eulogy, exequies, extreme unction, extremity, final extremity, funeral oration, funeral rites, last agony, last breath, last duty, last gasp, last honors, last offices, last rites, moribundity, obsequies, requiem, requiem mass, throes of death, viaticum, wake
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