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deathbed

 noun
     
death‧bed
[countable usually singular] the bed on which someone dies or is dying
on your deathbed
On her deathbed, Miriam's mother reveals that she never knew her father.
deathbed confession/conversion etc (=made when you are dying)
The disease allowed no time for a deathbed repentance.
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