hospice
noun/ˈhɑspɪs/
Frequency rank: #8,668 most common English word
Meaning
A facility or program providing compassionate care and support for people who are dying, focusing on comfort rather than cure.
Example sentence
The doctors recommended that the terminally ill patient move to hospice care so that he could spend his final weeks comfortably.
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