Idiom
living death
Meaning
A condition of suffering, solitude, or impairment so extreme as to deprive one's existence of all happiness and meaning.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“For the prisoner, his lonely life felt like a living death.”
“After the accident left him unable to move or speak, he described his existence as a living death.”
“Trapped in a cycle of endless, repetitive labor with no hope for change, the worker found his daily routine to be a living death.”
Examples
simple
“For the prisoner, his lonely life felt like a living death.”
contextual
“After the accident left him unable to move or speak, he described his existence as a living death.”
complex
“Trapped in a cycle of endless, repetitive labor with no hope for change, the worker found his daily routine to be a living death.”
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