knell

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1. hồi chuông báo tử

   The sound of a bell knelling; a toll (particularly one signalling a death).

   […]he is able to pierce a corselet with his eye; talks like a knell, and his hum is a battery.

   I go, and it is done. The bell invites me. Hear it not, Duncan, for it is a knell That summons thee to heaven or to hell.

   The curfew tolls the knell of parting day,

2. điềm báo kết thúc

   A sign of the end or demise of something or someone.

   figuratively

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• knells plural

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