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Meanings of grim reaper in English

Portuguese
ceifador sinistro
Catalan
grim reaper
Spanish
segador

Death personified as an old man or a skeleton with a scythe.

ceifador sinistro
Usage of grim reaper in English
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The grim reaper was sure to stay with the interested audience.
Joe Burke's Last Stand
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Jeffrey Goldfarb The grim reaper is breathing life into the moribund M&A market.
Reuters
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Put your grim reaper sickle away and find the middle ground.
The South African
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So the grim reaper's scythe will strike down some titles much sooner than others.
The Guardian
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Suddenly a grim reaper wannabe jumps out of a building, twin sawn-off shotguns blazing.
Wired
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The dreary whisper mourned, Grain for the grim reaper's sickle, that's what I am.
O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921
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But there was much more to her than being the grim reaper of death.
The new yorker
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Another said, The grim reaper is in the house.
News.com.au
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The thief of youth, they have called you; a highwayman, a gipsy, a grim reaper.
Mince Pie
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Seeing those cards, especially the one with the grim reaper, had given Josh a creepy feeling.
Swan Song
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She tried to force her thoughts away when that gruesomeness, from that too-well-remembered, grim reaper's gaze.
Phantoms
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I felt the grim reaper clasp my neck.
Wired
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And now the Mothman is seen as a " grim reaper" appearing just before death.
News.com.au
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Not a step did we take in advance but the grim reaper strode silently in our tracks.
Pellucidar
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The grim reaper can strike without warning.
News.com.au
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Shouldn't her music require the same sort of momentum the grim reaper might put into a scythe?
The Irish Times
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