Associations to the word «Deathwatch»
Noun
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Wiktionary
DEATHWATCH, noun. A vigil beside a dying person
DEATHWATCH, noun. One who guards a condemned person before execution.
DEATHWATCH, noun. A deathwatch beetle.
DEATHWATCH BEETLE, noun. Any of various beetles of the family Anobiidae that bore into wood and make a tapping sound.
DEATHWATCH BEETLES, noun. Plural of deathwatch beetle
Dictionary definition
DEATHWATCH, noun. Minute wingless psocopterous insects injurious to books and papers.
DEATHWATCH, noun. Bores through wood making a ticking sound popularly thought to presage death.
Wise words
Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing
in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in
the hands of one who knows how to combine them.