"living death" meaning in All languages combined

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "ref": "1904, E. Phillips Oppenheim, chapter 9, in The Master Mummer",
          "text": "\"[W]e cling so closely here to our own doctrine of isolation. . . .\"\n\"Isobel is intended, then?\" I asked.\n\"For the Church,\" Madame Richard answered. . . .\n\"Madame,\" I answered, \"Isobel is meant for life—not a living death.\"",
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        {
          "ref": "2004 November 7, John Schwartz, James Estrin, “Living for Today, Locked in a Paralyzed Body”, in New York Times, retrieved 2014-06-12",
          "text": "A.L.S., or Lou Gehrig's disease, is often described as a kind of living death in which the body goes flaccid while the mind remains intact and acutely aware.",
          "type": "quotation"
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        "A condition of suffering, solitude, or impairment so extreme as to deprive one's existence of all happiness and meaning."
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          "suffering"
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        [
          "solitude",
          "solitude"
        ],
        [
          "impairment",
          "impairment"
        ],
        [
          "deprive",
          "deprive"
        ],
        [
          "happiness",
          "happiness"
        ],
        [
          "meaning",
          "meaning"
        ]
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        "(idiomatic) A condition of suffering, solitude, or impairment so extreme as to deprive one's existence of all happiness and meaning."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "agony"
        },
        {
          "word": "desolation"
        },
        {
          "word": "misery"
        }
      ],
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  "word": "living death"
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  "pos": "noun",
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    {
      "word": "agony"
    },
    {
      "word": "desolation"
    },
    {
      "word": "misery"
    }
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        "English lemmas",
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        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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          "ref": "1904, E. Phillips Oppenheim, chapter 9, in The Master Mummer",
          "text": "\"[W]e cling so closely here to our own doctrine of isolation. . . .\"\n\"Isobel is intended, then?\" I asked.\n\"For the Church,\" Madame Richard answered. . . .\n\"Madame,\" I answered, \"Isobel is meant for life—not a living death.\"",
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        },
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          "ref": "2004 November 7, John Schwartz, James Estrin, “Living for Today, Locked in a Paralyzed Body”, in New York Times, retrieved 2014-06-12",
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        "A condition of suffering, solitude, or impairment so extreme as to deprive one's existence of all happiness and meaning."
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          "solitude",
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        "(idiomatic) A condition of suffering, solitude, or impairment so extreme as to deprive one's existence of all happiness and meaning."
      ],
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