Deathbed

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Deathbed \Death"bed\, n.
     The bed in which a person dies; hence, the closing hours of
     life of one who dies by sickness or the like; the last
     sickness.
     [1913 Webster]
  


           That often-quoted passage from Lord Hervey in which the
           Queen's deathbed is described.           --Thackeray.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  deathbed
       n 1: the last few hours before death
       2: the bed on which a person dies

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  18 Moby Thesaurus words for "deathbed":
     agony, death agonies, death groan, death rattle, death struggle,
     death throes, deathwatch, dying breath, eleventh-hour, extremity,
     final extremity, last agony, last breath, last gasp, last-minute,
     later, moribundity, throes of death