strong as death

adjective

Very strong or emotionally powerful.

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Meanings

adjectivestrong as death (not comparable)
  1. not comparablesimileVery strong or emotionally powerful.

    With this feeling strong as death upon him, he crumpled up the letters into one mass and tossed them precipitately into the fire.

    1877, Edward William Lewis Davies, Frank Raleigh of Watercombe (page 247)
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    Now alive as he was to all these searching argumentative itemizings of the minutest known facts any way bearing upon the subject; and yet, at the same time, persuaded, strong as death, that in spite of them, Isabel was indeed his sister; how could Pierre […] fail to acknowledge the existence of that all-controlling and all-permeating wonderfulness […] denominated The Finger of God?

    1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities
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