English - Turkish
Definition of death-rattle in English Turkish dictionary
- ölüm hırıltısı
- can çekişme hırıltısı
English - English
Definition of death-rattle in English English dictionary
- Alternative spelling of death rattle
- The raspy or gurgling sound sometimes made by a person as he or she draws in or expels the final breaths in the moments before dying
And so this killer—loath to touch a living body—was helpless. He could only wait for an old man's death rattle.
- If you say that one thing is the death rattle of another, you mean that the first thing is a sign that very soon the second thing will come to an end. His rhetoric sounds like the death rattle of a fading leadership. A gurgling or rattling sound sometimes made in the throat of a dying person, caused by loss of the cough reflex and passage of the breath through accumulating mucus. a noise that sometimes comes from the throat or chest of someone who is dying
- rattling sound made by a dying person