OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 51581

death rattle

Meanings (ES + gloss)
anhélito • estertor
The raspy or gurgling sound sometimes made by a person while drawing in or expelling their final breaths before dying.
George Martin had died as though in his sleep, so quietly that no one had even guessed. And what Peter had imagined to be his snores had really been the lonesome death rattle.
The death-rattle gurgled in the throat of his opponent; his arms fell heavily to his side.
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