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death against en · ADP

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  1. (alt-of, alternative, nonstandard, rare) Alternative form of dead against.
    • He was death against liquor, though. 1983, Ira E. Shea, Margaret Elley Felt, The Grange was My Life, page 15:
    • "I know," O'Donnell supposedly muttered. "I was death against it from the beginning . . . ." 1972, Burton Hersh, The Education of Edward Kennedy: A Family Biography, page 159:
    • He would always sniff for the telltale odor of kerosene, which the residents might have used for starting fires in their stoves — Edwin was death against it because of the hazard to the whole village. 1982, Katharine Blaisdell, Over the River and Through the Years - Volume 4, page 3: