シンダモドウゼン – Vocabulary details

シンダモドウゼン

Expression

1. as good as dead; might as well be dead; more dead than alive

death; (an) out; death penalty (by strangulation or decapitation; most severe of the five ritsuryō punishments)

just like; (virtually) no different from; (almost) the same as; as good as (e.g. dead, settled)

私わたしはそのときしんだもどうぜんシンダモドウゼンだった。

I was all but dead at that time.

この犬いぬはしんだもどうぜんシンダモドウゼンだ。

The dog is as good as dead.

この町まちの夜よるはまったくしんだもどうぜんシンダモドウゼンだ。

This town is really dead at night.

学まなぶことをやめる人にん間げんは、しんだもどうぜんシンダモドウゼンだ。

The man who stops learning is as good as dead.

病びょう院いんに運はこび込こまれたとき、彼かれはしんだもどうぜんシンダモドウゼンだった。

He was all but dead when taken to the hospital.

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