Life support machine

/lˈaɪf səpˈɔːt məʃˈiːn/

/lˈaɪf səpˈoːɹt məʃˈiːn/

[noun]

[NOUN]

a device that keeps someone alive when they are seriously ill and are unable to breathe on their own

life support machine definition and meaning

Examples

1. - Is it a life support machine?

2. -Mate, I just heard the life support machine go.

3. What you are doing is you are turning off our most important life support machine.

4. As we like to say, and this is one of the points we have been trying to hammer home throughout this episode, the economy is our life support machine.

Nearby words

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