末期

hour of death; one's last moments; end of one's life; last years

Meaning

  1. n
    hour of death; one's last moments; end of one's life
  2. n
    last years; closing years; last days; closing days; end; last stage; final stages; terminal stage (of a disease)

Example sentences

  • The setting of the story is Japan in the late Meiji period.

  • Suffering from terminal cancer, he was thrown out of a certain veteran hospital in New York three times because he adamantly rejected blood transfusions.