SUDDEN DEATH

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

I. (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(sports) overtime in which play is stopped as soon as one contestant scores; e.g. football and golf

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Hypernyms ("sudden death" is a kind of...):

extra time; overtime (playing time beyond regulation, to break a tie)

Domain category:

athletics; sport (an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition)

Credits

Context examples:

Arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (ARVC) is an inherited heart muscle disease that may result in arrhythmia, heart failure, and sudden death.

(Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

He had been called away by the sudden death of his father: he was at Marsh End now, and would very likely stay there a fortnight longer.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

They include feeding difficulties, lethargy, hypoglycemia, hypotonia, liver abnormalities, heart abnormalities, peripheral neuropathy, coma, and sudden death.

(Mitochondrial Trifunctional Protein Deficiency, NCI Thesaurus)

Case reports of sudden death due to acute obstructive hydrocephalus are in the literature.

(Intracranial Colloid Cyst, NCI Thesaurus)

SIDS is the sudden death of an infant under one year of age that remains unexplained after a complete autopsy and death scene investigation.

(Blood of SIDS infants contains high levels of serotonin, National Institutes of Health)

He came on the wings of disappointment, and with his head full of acting, for it had been a theatrical party; and the play in which he had borne a part was within two days of representation, when the sudden death of one of the nearest connexions of the family had destroyed the scheme and dispersed the performers.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

In this memorable year ’95, a curious and incongruous succession of cases had engaged his attention, ranging from his famous investigation of the sudden death of Cardinal Tosca—an inquiry which was carried out by him at the express desire of His Holiness the Pope—down to his arrest of Wilson, the notorious canary-trainer, which removed a plague-spot from the East End of London.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

During lunch he told us that Mrs. Westenra had for some time expected sudden death from her heart, and had put her affairs in absolute order; he informed us that, with the exception of a certain entailed property of Lucy's father's which now, in default of direct issue, went back to a distant branch of the family, the whole estate, real and personal, was left absolutely to Arthur Holmwood.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

A new gene that can lead to sudden death among young people and athletes has now been identified by an international team of researchers.

(Gene Causes Sudden Death in Young People, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)