"death rattle" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: death rattles [plural]
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: 56 44 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- Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 44 56 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 35 65 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 37 63 Topics: ball-games, cricket, games, hobbies, lifestyle, sports
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Synonyms: death-rattle

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