knell — OET · Shobdo

knell

noun

1 the knell of the ship's bell:

toll, tolling, ringing, chime, clang, dong, peal, stroke, resounding, reverberation, clangour, boom;

death knell;

archaic knoll, tocsin.

2 no politician wants to be remembered as the one who sounded the knell for the NHS:

end, beginning of the end, presage of the end, death knell;

death sentence, death warrant;

omen, evil omen, ill omen, portent, warning.

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