"sign one's death warrant" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Forms: signs one's death warrant [present, singular, third-person], signing one's death warrant [participle, present], signed one's death warrant [participle, past], signed one's death warrant [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*|head=sign one's death warrant}} sign one's death warrant (third-person singular simple present signs one's death warrant, present participle signing one's death warrant, simple past and past participle signed one's death warrant)
  1. To make a decision that dooms one to certain death. Translations (doom one to certain death): underskrive sin egen dødsdom (Danish), allekirjoittaa kuolemantuomionsa (Finnish), signer son arrêt de mort (French), sein eigenes Todesurteil unterschreiben (German), sein eigenes Todesurteil unterzeichnen (German), לחתום על גזר דין מוות (Hebrew), לחתום על פקודת חיסול (Hebrew), לחרוץ דין (Hebrew), לגזור מוות (Hebrew), skazywać się [imperfective] (Polish), skazać się [perfective] (Polish), підписа́ти свій сме́ртний ви́рок (pidpysáty svij smértnyj výrok) [perfective] (Ukrainian)

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