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Definition of death wish noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

death wish

noun
 
/ˈdeθ wɪʃ/
 
/ˈdeθ wɪʃ/
[singular]
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  1. a desire to die, often that somebody is not aware of
    • The number of accidents she gets into, you’d think she had a death wish.
    • Freud's theory of the death wish
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