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致死

zhì sǐ

2-character word

What 致死 means

1. to cause death; to be lethal; to be deadly

The characters in 致死

• 致zhì(bound form) fine; delicate; exquisite
• 死sǐto die; impassable; uncrossable

Example sentences

• 大爆炸致死六人。
  Dàbàozhà zhìsǐ liù rén.
  The huge explosion killed six people.
• 过去一百多年，澳大利亚共有二十七例蜘蛛咬人致死的记录。
  Guòqù yī bǎi duō nián, àodàlìyà gòngyǒu èrshí qī lì zhīzhū yǎo rén zhìsǐ de jìlù.
  Over the last hundred years, there have been twenty-seven recorded deaths from spider bites in Australia.
• 若有人争斗，一人以石头或拳头打了邻人，虽未致死，却使其卧床不起：若其后能起身、扶杖行走于外，则打人者可免于刑责，但须赔偿对方因此耽误的工钱，并承担其医治的费用。
  If men quarrel, and the one strike his neighbour with a stone, or with his fist, and he die not, but keepeth his bed: If he rise again and walk abroad upon his staff, he that struck him shall be quit, yet so that he make restitution for his work, and for his expenses upon the physicians.

Words starting with 致死

• 致死性zhì sǐ xìnglethal; fatal
• 致死量zhì sǐ liànglethal dose
• 致死剂量zhì sǐ jì liànglethal dose
• 致死性毒剂zhì sǐ xìng dú jìlethal agent

Words containing 致死

• 过失致死罪guò shī zhì sǐ zuì(law) negligent homicide
• 伤心致死shāng xīn zhì sǐto grieve to death; to die of a broken-heart

Sounds the same

Read zhì sǐ, tone for tone, but written differently.

• 治死to put to death