living death in English
noun
1
a state of existence that is very difficult; a life of hopeless and unbroken misery.
In September 1886, Massai was among the prisoners on an army train hauling the last of Geronimo's followers away to the living death of a prison camp in Florida.
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1. 25 That symbolic “lake” does not symbolize what is called “a living death.”
2. A proud, rebellious son... who was sold to living death in the mines of Libya... before his thirteenth birthday.
3. If there is a victor left the very victory will be a living death for the nation that emerges victorious.”
4. In a more modern vein, Professor Snape informs Harry Potter in Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone that powered root of Asphodel is an ingredient in a sleeping potion known as the Draught of Living Death.