instant death
No lingering, gone
Instant death is death occurring immediately, with no interval of survival or suffering.
The phrase appears in contexts ranging from video games, where players die and restart without penalty of lingering injury, to legal and medical discussions of trauma: The crash caused instant death.
It often implies mercy—better than a slow, painful end.
- suddenOccurring without prior notice
- fatalCausing death or ruin
- lethalCausing or capable of death
- split secondInfinitesimal unit of time
- killCause death
swift · painless · execution · headshot · point blank · sniper · electrocution · vaporize · annihilate · obliterate · drop dead · flatline · dead on arrival · lights out · curtains · gone · game over · dispatch
instant deathslow death
Extended process of dying
gradual decline · wasting away · terminal decline · fading away · terminal illness
instant deathsurvival
Remaining alive against odds
narrow escape · close call · near miss · cheating death · full recovery
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