Word | a fate worse than death |
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Description | a terrible experience, especially that of seduction or rape 1991 - Thomas Hayden - The Killing Frost – He dominated the conversation, holding the Hackett and Townshend women spellbound as he told of how he had broken up a white slave ring in Dublin, and how he had rescued an innocent young girl from a fate worse than death. a terrible experience, especially that of seduction or rape 1991 - Thomas Hayden - The Killing Frost – He dominated the conversatio |
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