From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishmeet your death/endmeet your death/endDIEto die in a particular way He met his death at the hands of enemy soldiers. → meet
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meet your death/end• In that position Buddha met his end.• Medieval representation of Frederick Barbarossa as a crusader, the role in which he met his death.• Strange coincidence, the same place where Whitton had met his death.• No officer convicted of plotting against him met his end at the hands of the firing squad.• If the ropes do jam then please remember that the great Giusto Gervasutti met his death during just such a retrieval operation.• The last band met its end in 1906, in the Chiricahuas.• When a herring meets its end, it is usually in the mouth of a bigger fish or a in a net. 