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RELATED WORD : deathwatch beetle

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun deathwatch has 2 senses

• deathwatch(n = noun.animal) book louse, booklouse, liposcelis divinatorius - minute wingless psocopterous insects injurious to books and papers; Array
is a kind of psocopterous insect
is a member of genus liposcelis, liposcelis
has particulars: common booklouse, trogium pulsatorium

• deathwatch(n = noun.animal) deathwatch beetle, xestobium rufovillosum - bores through wood making a ticking sound popularly thought to presage death; Array
is a kind of beetle
is a member of anobiidae, family anobiidae

THESAURUS

deathwatch

agony, burial service, death agonies, death groan, death rattle, death struggle, death throes, deathbed, dirge, dying breath, eulogy, exequies, extreme unction, extremity, final extremity, funeral oration, funeral rites, last agony, last breath, last duty, last gasp, last honors, last offices, last rites, moribundity, obsequies, requiem, requiem mass, throes of death, viaticum, wake

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