in extremis

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介词短语
  1. At the point of death.
    — Military records describing the deaths of men as a result of injuries sustained during combat employed the phrase in a (now near-obsolete) sense to describe a man on the verge of dying: […] 'He was in extremis when seen and died about 2 hours after the action ceased at 9 pm'.
  2. In desperate circumstances. broadly
    — The purpose, of course, was to find out if the prisoner, in extremis, broke down and wrote to a family in Israel.

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Latin in extrēmīsbor.
English in extremis
Borrowed from Latin in extrēmīs.
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