九きゅう死し

noun

narrowly averting death; near-death experience

Almost always used in the set phrase 九死に一生を得る (to have a narrow escape from death) or similar expressions. Rarely used alone.

• 彼かれはその事じ故こで九きゅう死しに一いっ生しょうを得えた。

  He narrowly escaped death in that accident.