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UK
/dˈɛθwɒtʃ/
]
[ US /ˈdɛθˌwɑtʃ/ ]
[ US /ˈdɛθˌwɑtʃ/ ]
NOUN
- bores through wood making a ticking sound popularly thought to presage death
- minute wingless psocopterous insects injurious to books and papers
How To Use deathwatch In A Sentence
- `Sinking oh so beautifully under the weight of debts and tax and deathwatch beetle and dangerous wiring and inadequate heating. THE HARDIE INHERITANCE
- Claude and I were old, friendly rivals on the deathwatch beat. FAITHLESS: TALES OF TRANSGRESSION
- Yea, though Iapetus walk through the valorization of the shagbark of deathwatch 23rd Psaltery
- Now that the banks aren't on deathwatch, Ken Lewis's perch atop Bank of America (BAC) looks secure.