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death rattle

noun

: a rattling or gurgling sound produced by air passing through mucus in the lungs and air passages of a dying person

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web Crean won’t be bothered with that world anymore, and his words after Georgia’s final loss of the season sounded like a death rattle. Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al, 10 Mar. 2022 No one knows if a dying person finds the death rattle disturbing or distressing, as no one can pretend to know with certainty the inner subjective experience of anyone too ill to express it. Ira Bedzow, STAT, 26 Oct. 2021 After a fourth blow, a plume of black smoke rose from the machine thirty feet into the air in a final death rattle. Andy Greenberg, Wired, 23 Oct. 2020

Word History

First Known Use

1781, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of death rattle was in 1781

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