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Noun [English]

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Head templates: {{en-noun}} death rattle (plural death rattles)
  1. The raspy or gurgling sound sometimes made by a person while drawing in or expelling their final breaths before dying. Categories (topical): Death Translations (Gurgling sound sometimes made by a dying person): ranera de la mort [feminine] (Catalan), kuolinkorina (Finnish), boqueadas [feminine, plural] (Galician), Rasselatmung [feminine] (German), präfinales Rasseln [neuter] (German), Todesrasseln [neuter] (German), επιθανάτιος ρόγχος (epithanátios rónchos) (Greek), halálhörgés (Hungarian), stertoro (Ido), rantolo della morte [masculine] (Italian), singultus [feminine] (Latin), whawharo (Maori), tuamatangi (Maori), agonal respirasjon (Norwegian Bokmål), døende resipirasjon (Norwegian Bokmål), rzężenie [feminine] (Polish), estertor [masculine] (Portuguese), vasca [feminine] (Portuguese), самртни хропац [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), samrtni hropac [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), estertor [masculine] (Spanish), dödsrossling (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-death_rattle-en-noun-4iA4PHFj Disambiguation of Death: 83 17 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Catalan translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with Galician translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Greek translations, Terms with Hungarian translations, Terms with Ido translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Latin translations, Terms with Maori translations, Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations, Terms with Spanish translations, Terms with Swedish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 70 30 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 79 21 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 74 26 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 81 19 Disambiguation of Terms with Catalan translations: 75 25 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 75 25 Disambiguation of Terms with Galician translations: 75 25 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 80 20 Disambiguation of Terms with Greek translations: 73 27 Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 75 25 Disambiguation of Terms with Ido translations: 83 17 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 82 18 Disambiguation of Terms with Latin translations: 82 18 Disambiguation of Terms with Maori translations: 75 25 Disambiguation of Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations: 74 26 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 76 24 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 81 19 Disambiguation of Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations: 81 19 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 85 15 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 76 24 Disambiguation of 'Gurgling sound sometimes made by a dying person': 93 7
  2. (cricket, by extension) The sound of a batsman’s stumps being broken, so called because this leads to the batsman’s dismissal. Tags: broadly Categories (topical): Cricket
    Sense id: en-death_rattle-en-noun-ZZWCTpf- Topics: ball-games, cricket, games, hobbies, lifestyle, sports
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: death-rattle

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      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "Gurgling sound sometimes made by a dying person",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "vasca"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "Gurgling sound sometimes made by a dying person",
      "tags": [
        "Cyrillic"
      ],
      "word": "самртни хропац"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "Gurgling sound sometimes made by a dying person",
      "tags": [
        "Roman"
      ],
      "word": "samrtni hropac"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "Gurgling sound sometimes made by a dying person",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "estertor"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "Gurgling sound sometimes made by a dying person",
      "word": "dödsrossling"
    }
  ],
  "word": "death rattle"
}

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