Usually means: Unexpected, immediate cessation of life.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word sudden death:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. sudden death: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. sudden death: Merriam-Webster
  3. sudden death: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. sudden death: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. sudden death: Collins English Dictionary
  6. sudden death: Vocabulary.com
  7. sudden-death: Wordnik
  8. sudden death: Wiktionary
  9. sudden death: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. sudden death: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. sudden-death, sudden death: Dictionary.com
  12. Sudden Death (Megadeth song), Sudden Death (band), Sudden Death (song), Sudden Death, Sudden death (sport), Sudden death: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. sudden death: Rhymezone
  14. sudden death: FreeDictionary.org
  15. sudden death: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. sudden-death, sudden death: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sudden-death, sudden death: Legal dictionary

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. sudden death: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. sudden-death, sudden death: Medical dictionary
  5. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. sudden death, sudden death: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Sudden Death: Urban Dictionary

Sports (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  2. sudden death: Golfer's Dictionary
  3. Sudden death: Sports Definitions

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Definitions from Wiktionary (sudden death)

noun:  (countable) Instantaneous, unexpected death not caused by violence or trauma.
noun:  (sports, games) A period or mode of play in which the next player or team to score wins instantly; often in an extra period of time following a tie at the end of the regular period of play.
noun:  (India, historical, slang) A meal of a chicken freshly slaughtered and spatchcocked.
noun:  Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see sudden, death.

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