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casi muerto

English translation: Close to death

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Spanish term or phrase:casi muerto
English translation:Close to death
Entered by: Ruth Hill

06:15 Apr 25, 2022
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Poetry & Literature
Spanish term or phrase: casi muerto
Buenas

¿Ustedes me podrían ayudar a traducir la expresión "casi muerto" en la siguiente oración, por favor?

Oración: “Esa misma tarde, me enteré de que el día anterior al internamiento él se había sentido débil y casi muerto”.

Contexto: esta oración ese de un cuento sobre un enfermo que sufre de leucemia y está hospitalizado.

¿La traducción "almost or barely dead" les parece natural o tal vez exista alguna otra opción para decir lo mismo al inglés?

Muchas gracias.
José Pablo Corrales
Costa Rica
Close to death
Explanation:
Zeinab's suggestion is good, but I think this might be a more common way of saying it
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Ruth Hill
United Kingdom
Local time: 09:09
Grading comment
Amazing answer! Thanks
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +4On the brink of death
Zeinab Hamid
5 +2Close to death
Ruth Hill
4 +1at the point of death
matt robinson
4 +1at death’s door
Carol Gullidge
3dying on the verge of death
Elsa Caballero
Summary of reference entries provided
almost exhausted
José Patrício

  

Answers


10 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +4
On the brink of death


Explanation:
On the brink of […] meaning extremely close to, or, in this context, dangerously close to


    Reference: http://https://www.collinsdictionary.com/es/diccionario/ingl...
Zeinab Hamid
United Kingdom
Native speaker of: Native in ArabicArabic, Native in EnglishEnglish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Ruth Hill
2 mins
  -> Thanks Ruth!
agree  philgoddard
1 hr
agree  Noni Gilbert Riley
2 hrs
agree  Katarina Peters
6 hrs
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15 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5
dying on the verge of death


Explanation:
Me suena más natural esta frase, aunque quizás esté "traicionando" el texto origen.

Elsa Caballero
Australia
Local time: 18:09
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in category: 4
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17 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +2
Close to death


Explanation:
Zeinab's suggestion is good, but I think this might be a more common way of saying it


    https://www.abc.net.au/news/health/2017-05-26/what-to-expect-when-someone-is-dying/8550490
Ruth Hill
United Kingdom
Local time: 09:09
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 12
Grading comment
Amazing answer! Thanks

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Simone Taylor
2 hrs
agree  Noni Gilbert Riley
2 hrs
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54 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
at the point of death


Explanation:
Another take.

matt robinson
Spain
Local time: 10:09
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 20

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Noni Gilbert Riley
1 hr
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
at death’s door


Explanation:
A widely-used expression for being or feeling very close to death.

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Note added at 4 hrs (2022-04-25 11:04:59 GMT)
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at death's door
Extremely ill or very close to death
A case of untreated rabies left me suddenly at death's door.

Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. © 2022 Farlex, Inc, all rights reserved.
at death's door
very near the end of one's life. (Often an exaggeration.) I was so ill that I was at death's door for three days. The family dog was at death's door for three days, and then it finally died.

McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
at death's door
On the point of dying, very ill, as in Whenever she had a bad cold she acted as though she were at death's door. The association of death with an entry way was first made in English in the late 1300s, and the phrase itself dates from the mid-1500s. Today it is often used as an exaggeration of ill health.

Carol Gullidge
United Kingdom
Local time: 09:09
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 315

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  patinba: This is what one would say about oneself in the circumstances described.
5 hrs
  -> Thanks, patina, that is exactly what I had in mind- i.e., as the patient himself might express how they felt
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Reference comments


2 hrs
Reference: almost exhausted

Reference information:
almost exhausted - https://www.powerthesaurus.org/almost_dead/synonyms?msclkid=...

José Patrício
Portugal
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
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