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Death Wish is a 1974 American action film loosely based on the 1972 novel Death Wish by Brian Garfield . The film was directed by Michael Winner and stars Charles Bronson as Paul Kersey, a man who becomes a vigilante after his wife is murdered and his daughter ...

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n. (psychoanalysis) an unconscious urge to die [syn: death instinct ]

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n. (context psychology English) A desire, especially subconscious, for the death of oneself or of someone else.

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noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ You don't use your seatbelt? What do you have, a death wish ? EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ All she could think, she told me, was that I must have had a death wish . ▪ And it came to the crunch in April, I was on a death wish ...