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Fate mostly dire, turning desperate
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do-or-die
Word definitions for do-or-die in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. desperately determined; "do-or-die revolutionaries"; "a do-or-die conflict" [syn: desperate , do-or-die(a) ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ The airline spent $120 million in a do-or-die effort to save the company. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Besides, his own party's do-or-die tendency will now be vigilant against any hint of gradualism. ▪ I was very dismayed ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. (context idiomatic English) Requiring a determined or desperate effort to avoid the consequences of failure. alt. (context idiomatic English) Requiring a determined or desperate effort to avoid the consequences of failure.
Usage examples of do-or-die.
This was not, technically, the place for a cavalry battalion commander to be, in the hatch of an Abrams leading a do-or-die charge into the face of two million enemies.
But after six weeks in the company of the Wedge’s boisterous do-or-die commandos, what I wanted more than anything was to be alone for a while.
The Elders' relatively speedy acceptance of his argument that further attacks would be in vain had been a welcome surprise, and if Simonds' decision to reinforce the fortifications scattered about the Endicott System was pointless, it also beat hell out of a do-or-die assault on Grayson.
The trial of the Biltmore Five was no longer a do-or-die cause for La Raza, but a shameful crime that a handful of radical dope fiends had brought down on the whole community.