Meanings
- A state of being extremely ill or injured.
The first time the medical officer looked at me, he said I was D, for death warmed over.
2005, Colleen Heffernan, A Kind of Courage, →ISBN, page 754 more examples
I am the reign of terror, the ten plagues, I am a case of the clap, I am the thing that goes bump in the night, De Shadow, death warmed over.
2007, Robert M. Sapolsky, A Primate's Memoir, →ISBNShe studied Mary Helen's face. “Oh, my!” she said. “You're the color of death warmed over.
2007, Sister Carol Anne O'Marie, Murder at the Monks' Table, →ISBNThere are those who seek to live apart from HIM; but that end is the epitome of 'death warmed over'.
2012, Franklin Trainer, Provoked, →ISBN, page 2They give you the hair of the dog that bit you. It was one big, mean dog. The hair warms you up to death warmed over.
2013, Harry Turtledove, Cayos in the Stream, →ISBN
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