slow death
Prolonged fatal decline
A slow death is a prolonged dying process, whether literal or figurative.
The phrase often describes something that deteriorates gradually rather than ending quickly: Watching that company's slow death was painful.
It can also characterize tedious experiences that feel interminable: That three-hour meeting was a slow death.
- agonyExtreme physical or emotional pain
- sufferingSustained experience of distress
- decayGradual organic breakdown
- wasting awayGradual physical decline
- wastingUsing poorly, inefficiently
fading · fading fast · withering · lingering · terminal · torture · anguish · deterioration · decline · consumption · languish · wither · creeping · inevitable · hospice · pallid · emaciated · skin and bones
- deathficfatal injury, deathbed scene
- dyingdying, expiring, passing, passing away, perishing
slow deathpeaceful death
Calm, painless final moment
mercy killing · euthanasia · good death · death with dignity · dignified death
slow deaththriving
Succeeding vigorously
flourishing · new lease on life · rebirth · revival · recovery
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