death sentence
Noun
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Noun
death sentence (plural death sentences)
- (legal) A decree that someone be put to death as a punishment for a crime; a sentence of execution.
- (figurative) Anything that spells death.
- Having the Huntington's gene is a death sentence.
- French: arrêt de mort, sentence de mort, condamnation à mort
- German: Todesurteil
- Portuguese: pena de morte
- Russian: сме́ртный пригово́р
- Spanish: sentencia de muerte
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