Definition of "death-rattle" [death-rattle]

• Alternative spelling of death rattle. (noun)

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• "Maybe his mind was blown, but my is still sufficiently intact, albiet disappointed in yet another example of why people are worried SF is in a death-rattle."
• "With dark night coming on, and the death-rattle in her throat, she raised herself weakly and pointed a shaking finger at the accused, thus, and she said, 'Him, him, him."
• "This complex dual inheritance took him to Harvard to study French literature and then, because he has a horror of boredom, to New York in the city's death-rattle years during the 1970s."