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Examples of death wish in a Sentence
Have you seen the way she drives? She must have a death wish.
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A lot of anger and denial, and even a bit of a death wish, that all were there before Grace got there and now are roaring back.
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Patrick Gomez, EW.com, 18 Jan. 2025
A lot of anger and denial, and even a bit of a death wish that all were there before Grace got there and now are roaring back.
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Patrick Gomez, EW.com, 3 Dec. 2024
Call it love, call it chemistry, call it some kind of unconscious death wish, but these two can’t keep their hands off each other.
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Scott Meslow, Vulture, 8 Aug. 2024
The many forms of Darby Allin’s death wish continues to be a story in 2024.
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Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 12 Oct. 2024
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Word History
First Known Use
1856, in the meaning defined above
Dictionary Entries Near death wish
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“Death wish.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/death%20wish. Accessed 11 Feb. 2025.
Medical Definition
death wish
noun
: the conscious or unconscious desire for the death of another or of oneself
called also destrudo
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