Meaning

2 senses
  1. A decree that someone be put to death as a punishment for a crime; a sentence of execution.

    Todesurteil

    сме́ртный пригово́рsmértnyj prigovór

    сме́ртний ви́рокsmértnyj výrok

  2. (figuratively)Anything that spells death.

    Having the Huntington's gene is a death sentence.

Examples

17 sentences
  1. I've been given a death sentence.

    ruМеня приговорили к смертной казни. — corvard

    deIch bin zum Tode verurteilt worden. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  2. Tom definitely should have gotten the death sentence.

    deTom hätte auf jeden Fall die Todesstrafe bekommen sollen. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  3. The verdict was a death sentence.

  4. We are signing our death sentences.

  5. Sami's death sentence was commuted to life.

Translations

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Forms

plural: death sentences
Singulardeath sentence
Pluraldeath sentences

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Word family

1 related words

See also

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