deathlock
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
1
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Synonym of death grip.
noun
Synonym of death grip.
noun
Synonym of death grip.
noun
Synonym of death grip.
Example Sentences
- "When close to the whale, in the very deathlock of the fight, he handled his unpitying lance coolly and offhandedly, as a whistling tinker his hammer."
- "In a word, luck — that's the word — shortly threw in Paul's way the great action of his life : the most extraordinary of all naval engagements ; the unparalleled deathlock with the Serapis."
- "The wasp, who had apparently been playing possum, suddenly became very much alive, and in a flash spider and wasp were clasped in a deathlock."
- "The fighting was the most violent of the war, and along the whole line, plunging forward after intense artillery preparation, the Americans and French met the Germans in the deathlock of hand-to-hand fighting."
- "The struggle of Europe, coming, as well as past, is a final struggle of opposite principles; it is the deathlock between self-government and slavery."
- "He wrote about us as if we were all Prometheuses in noble deathlock with the forces of repression in a battle for the soul of man."
Etymology
Inflected Forms
Phrases
Indian deathlock
scorpion deathlock