"death against" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1972, Burton Hersh, The Education of Edward Kennedy: A Family Biography, page 159:",
          "text": "\"I know,\" O'Donnell supposedly muttered. \"I was death against it from the beginning . . . .\"",
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          "ref": "1982, Katharine Blaisdell, Over the River and Through the Years - Volume 4, page 3:",
          "text": "He would always sniff for the telltale odor of kerosene, which the residents might have used for starting fires in their stoves — Edwin was death against it because of the hazard to the whole village.",
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          "ref": "1983, Ira E. Shea, Margaret Elley Felt, The Grange was My Life, page 15:",
          "text": "He was death against liquor, though.",
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        "Alternative form of dead against."
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        "(rare, nonstandard) Alternative form of dead against."
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          "text": "He was death against liquor, though.",
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