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adv. 1 {{&lit|See (term to used to indicate result of action), (term: death)|lang=en}} 2 (context degree idiomatic hyperbole English) To a great degree; to the greatest degree possible, to excess.
Usage examples of "to death".
They fled for their lives, but within a month both they and Babington were caught and condemned to death after a two-day trial.
Cryptanalysis can bring countries into war, engender naval battles and win them, compel besieged cities to yield, condemn queens to death and exile priestly conspirators from their homeland.
God had exhibited us apostles as last of all, like men sentenced to death, because we have become a spectacle to the world, to angels and to men.
Mom, just in case someone had heard something on their police scanner and called her, which would scare her and Dad to death, but figured it would be smarter to first ask the detectives if making calls was okay.
They were shot to death, jerking and bleeding rags of flesh and bone, blood-splattered.
Biologists were still trying to discover how the species stayed alive, since mudcows had been known to starve to death rather than take the trouble to get up and go look for food.
The man caught in his fatal collars of slime was close to death, and the surviving deputy, his face almost black with fear and rage, had drawn a knife on the boy.
Lazarus, the prophet of Transcendent Harmony, had been put to death by Vorster underlings more than sixty years before.
Another had beaten her husband almost to death with a chair leg and was in custody awaiting trial.
Set up a vital statistics sytem from birth to death, with numbers and fingerprints and house registration and maybe the gas chamber if you forget to report a up a vital statistics system from birth to death, with the wise guys, Charles?