to the death Definition

death
noun

1. The time, act or manner of dying, or the state of being dead.

Thesaurus: annihilation, passing, demise, end, expiration, extinction, finish, fatality, departure, cessation; Antonym: birth, life.
2. biol.
The cessation of all the vital functions that are required to keep an organism alive.
3. medicine.
The cessation of the heartbeat when this is accompanied by brain death.
4. often humorous
Something which causes a person to die.
Example: His antics will be the death of me
5. The end or destruction of something.
6. The figure of a skeleton, as a symbol of death.

Form: Death

Derivative: deathless
adj

often ironic
Immortal; unforgettable.
Example: deathless prose
Thesaurus: eternal, never-ending, everlasting, timeless, undying, immortal, constant, imperishable.

Derivative: deathlessness
noun

Derivative: deathlike
adj

Derivative: deathliness
noun

Derivative: deathly
adj

Idiom: at death's door

Near death; gravely ill.
Thesaurus: dying, moribund, failing, wasting away.

Idiom: catch one's death (catch one's death of cold)

colloq
To catch a very bad cold.

Idiom: do someone to death

old use
To kill them.

Idiom: do something to death

To overuse it.

Idiom: in at the death

Present when a hunted animal, eg a fox, is killed.

Present at the climax, end, destruction, etc of an enterprise, undertaking, etc.

Idiom: like death warmed up (like death warmed over)

colloq
Said of someone's appearance: unhealthy; very unwell.

Idiom: like grim death

Very hard or tightly.

Idiom: put someone to death

To kill them or have them killed; to execute them.

Idiom: to death

Very much; to an extreme or excess.
Example: bored to death
Thesaurus: much, very much, extremely, to the extreme.

Idiom: to the death

Until dead or until one's opponent is dead; to the very end.

Etymology: Anglo-Saxon.