0 something you do not want to experience because it is so unpleasant:
1 something you do not want to experience because it is so unpleasant or embarrassing:
Insensibility becomes a fate worse than death itself and even becomes a disqualification for life.
They thought at first it was a fate worse than death.
That, in the past, would not have been regarded by mankind as a fate worse than death.
That is a fate worse than death.
There are fates worse than death which some of us might suffer in our bodies, but that incorporeal entity, the company, can hardly suffer a fate worse than death.
This was a fate worse than death for masculine gendered males.
There is a fate worse than death, you know...
It is a fate worse than death.
