to death
To the extreme
To death is an intensifier meaning to an extreme degree, suggesting the limit of endurance.
It attaches to verbs describing emotional or physical states: bored to death, scared to death, worked to death, loved to death.
The phrase implies something has been carried so far it could kill, though the usage is almost always hyperbolic: I've been worried to death about you.
- dyingCeasing to live
- demiseCessation of existence
- boredLacking interest or engagement
- overkillUnnecessary additional effort
- fatalityDeath from accident
suffocation · obliteration · overwhelm · perish · burnout · scared · tickled · worked · frozen · saturation · passing · exhaustion · beaten · expiration · annihilation · end · excessiveness · final
to deathslightly
To a minor extent
moderately · a little · barely · not at all · somewhat
to deathback to life
death, deadly, mortal, deaths, deathly, deathless, dead, immortality, mortality