cheat death

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cheat death (third-person singular simple present cheats death, present participle cheating death, simple past and past participle cheated death)

To survive a situation which would be expected to result in death.
- 2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, OCLC 865290061, PC, scene: Therapy:
  From Olar, Han
  Shepard,
  They say you're alive. That you cheated death. That sending you this isn't just a pointless exercise as part of my therapy. They say a lot of things.
- 2015, Ron Barnett, “World War II vets who cheated death twice honor their fallen brothers”, in The Greenville News‎, retrieved 11 August 2019:
  The Greenville resident, and the other remaining survivors of World War II, have cheated death twice, escaping with their lives in a deadliest military conflict in history and then outliving their life expectancy to enjoy the fruits of their service.
- 2015 October 5, Tom Mullen, “Surviving eight Nazi death camps”, in BBC News‎, retrieved 11 August 2019:
  A Holocaust survivor who cheated death in eight Nazi concentration camps during World War Two has recalled his experiences, 70 years since the liberation of Auschwitz.

单词	cheat death
释义	cheat death English Verb cheat death (third-person singular simple present cheats death, present participle cheating death, simple past and past participle cheated death) To survive a situation which would be expected to result in death. 2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, OCLC 865290061, PC, scene: Therapy: From Olar, Han Shepard, They say you're alive. That you cheated death. That sending you this isn't just a pointless exercise as part of my therapy. They say a lot of things. 2015, Ron Barnett, “World War II vets who cheated death twice honor their fallen brothers”, in The Greenville News‎, retrieved 11 August 2019: The Greenville resident, and the other remaining survivors of World War II, have cheated death twice, escaping with their lives in a deadliest military conflict in history and then outliving their life expectancy to enjoy the fruits of their service. 2015 October 5, Tom Mullen, “Surviving eight Nazi death camps”, in BBC News‎, retrieved 11 August 2019: A Holocaust survivor who cheated death in eight Nazi concentration camps during World War Two has recalled his experiences, 70 years since the liberation of Auschwitz. Further reading Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary‎ (in English), Cambridge University Press, 2008, →ISBN, page 230
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cheat death

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