death watch
noun
Roget 360:
death;
decease,
demise;
dissolution,
departure,
obit,
release,
rest,
quietus,
fall;
loss,
bereavement;
mortality,
morbidity.
end of life
etc.
67,
cessation of life
etc.
142,
loss of life,
extinction of life,
ebb of life
etc.
359.
death warrant,
death watch,
death rattle,
death bed;
stroke of death,
agonies of death,
shades of death,
valley of death,
jaws of death,
hand of death;
last breath,
last gasp,
last agonies;
dying day,
dying breath,
dying agonies;
chant du cygne [Fr.];
rigor mortis [Lat.];
Stygian shore.
King of terrors,
King Death;
Death;
doom
etc.
(necessity)
601;
Hell's grim Tyrant"
[Pope].
euthanasia;
break up of the system;
natural death,
natural decay;
sudden death,
violent death;
untimely end,
watery grave;
debt of nature;
suffocation,
asphyxia;
fatal disease
etc.
(disease)
655;
death blow
etc.
(killing)
361.
necrology,
bills of mortality,
obituary;
death song
etc.
(lamentation)
839.
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Roget 668:
warning,
early warning,
caution,
caveat;
notice
etc.
(information)
527;
premonition,
premonishment†;
prediction
etc.
511;
contraindication,
lesson,
dehortation†;
admonition,
monition;
alarm
etc.
669.
handwriting on the wall,
mene mene tekel upharsin,
red flag,
yellow flag;
fog-signal,
foghorn;
siren;
monitor,
warning voice,
Cassandra†,
signs of the times,
Mother Cary's chickens†,
stormy petrel,
bird of ill omen,
gathering clouds,
clouds in the horizon,
death watch.
watchtower,
beacon,
signal post;
lighthouse
etc.
(indication of locality)
550.
sentinel,
sentry, ,
watch,
watchman;
watch and ward;
watchdog,
bandog†,
housedog†;
patrol,
patrolman,
vedette†,
picket,
bivouac,
scout,
spy,
spial†;
undercover agent,
mole,
plainclothesman;
advanced guard,
rear guard;
lookout.
cautiousness
etc.
864.
monitor,
guard camera,
radar,
AWACS,
spy satellite,
spy-in-the-sky,
U2 plane,
spy plane.
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