Associations to the word «Deathbed»

Wiktionary

DEATHBED, noun. The bed on which someone dies.
DEATHBED, noun. The last hours before death.
DEATHBED CONVERSION, noun. (set phrase) Acceptance of religious belief immediately before one dies, usually in a last-minute effort to save one's soul or to gain entry into a paradisiacal afterlife.
DEATHBED CONVERSION, noun. (idiomatic) (usually sarcastic) (often politics) An abrupt, last-minute change in one's professed beliefs, principles, or point of view in order to escape a serious threat or to increase one's chances of success.

Dictionary definition

DEATHBED, noun. The last few hours before death.
DEATHBED, noun. The bed on which a person dies.

Wise words

We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.
John Locke