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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