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LIFE SENTENCE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A prison term lasting as long as the prisoner lives
Example:
he got life for killing the guard
Synonyms:
life; life sentence
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("life sentence" is a kind of...):
prison term; sentence; time (the period of time a prisoner is imprisoned)
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