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Word | Deathwatch |
Bengali Meaning | পাহারাদার, বাধা, রক্ষাকর্তা |
minute wingless psocopterous insects injurious to books and papers / bores through wood making a ticking sound popularly thought to presage death / A small beetle (Anobium tessellatum and other allied species). By forcibly striking its head against woodwork it makes a ticking sound, which is a call of the sexes to each other, but has been imagined by superstitious people to presage death. / a vigil kept beside a dead or dying individual., | |
Usage | ⇒ When his friend Sir Joseph Hooker's young son fell ill, Darwin drew on his own agonizing deathwatch of Annie to comfort him. |
Synonyms | booklouse, book louse, deathwatch beetle, wake, beetle, Liposcelis divinatorius, Xestobium rufovillosum, agony, burial service, death agonies, death groan, death rattle, death struggle, death throes, deathbed, dirge, dying breath, eulogy, exequies, extreme unction, |
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