cheat death

English

Verb

cheat death (third-person singular simple present cheats death, present participle cheating death, simple past and past participle cheated death)

  1. To survive a situation which would be expected to result in death.
    • 2010, BioWare, Mass Effect 2 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Therapy:
      From Olar, Han
      Shepard,
      They say you're alive. That you cheated death. That sending you this isn't just a pointless exercise as part of my therapy. They say a lot of things.
    • 2015, Ron Barnett, “World War II vets who cheated death twice honor their fallen brothers”, in The Greenville News‎, retrieved 11 August 2019:
      The Greenville resident, and the other remaining survivors of World War II, have cheated death twice, escaping with their lives in a deadliest military conflict in history and then outliving their life expectancy to enjoy the fruits of their service.
    • 2015 October 5, Tom Mullen, “Surviving eight Nazi death camps”, in BBC News‎, retrieved 11 August 2019:
      A Holocaust survivor who cheated death in eight Nazi concentration camps during World War Two has recalled his experiences, 70 years since the liberation of Auschwitz.

Further reading
  • Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary‎ (in English), Cambridge University Press, 2008, →ISBN, page 230
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