Meaning of death rattle | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The raspy or gurgling sound sometimes made by a person while drawing in or expelling their final breaths before dying.
2. The sound of a batsman’s stumps being broken, so called because this leads to the batsman’s dismissal.
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Examples

“The death-rattle gurgled in the throat of his opponent; his arms fell heavily to his side.”

“George Martin had died as though in his sleep, so quietly that no one had even guessed. And what Peter had imagined to be his snores had really been the lonesome death rattle.”

“And so this killer—loath to touch a living body—was helpless. He could only wait for an old man's death rattle.”

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