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動詞

die roaring (三人称単数 現在形 dies roaring, 現在分詞 dying roaring, 過去形および過去分詞形 died roaring)

1. (Ireland, colloquial, dated) die in agony, especially as divine punishment for a wicked life
   • 1910 Patrick Weston Joyce "Comparisons" p.137 English as we speak it in Ireland (London: Longmans, Green)

     May you die roaring like Doran's bull!

   • 1939 March, Frank O'Connor, "First Confession", Harper's Bazaar:

     "Did you ever see a fellow hanged?"

     "I saw dozens of them," he assured me solemnly, "and they all died roaring."

   • 1997 September 13 "The court of Malachy" The Irish Times

     The genial, white-haired Malachy also enthralled the audience with grim jokes about how Henry VIII and Randolph Churchill died roaring from syphillis.

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• die roaring for a priest