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Discover LudwigThe phrase "wait to die" is grammatically correct and is used in both spoken and written English.
It is typically used to describe a situation in which a person believes that their end might be near, and so they are waiting for it. For example: "After suffering for so long, she had come to accept her fate and simply waited to die."
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"Couldn't wait to die.
I just sit and wait to die".
"You don't have to just wait to die.
"They think, nursing homes, you go in and wait to die.
"I would close the door and the window and I would wait to die".
Some object that even the great John Wayne had to wait to die before California named an airport after him.
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"She is waiting to die," he said.
"We are waiting to die.
All of us are waiting to die.
I'm just waiting to die.
"So I went home and waited to die," Fowler said.
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