Death

[deθ] or [dɛθ]

Definition

(noun.) the act of killing; 'he had two deaths on his conscience'.

(noun.) the event of dying or departure from life; 'her death came as a terrible shock'; 'upon your decease the capital will pass to your grandchildren'.

(noun.) the personification of death; 'Death walked the streets of the plague-bound city'.

(noun.) the permanent end of all life functions in an organism or part of an organism; 'the animal died a painful death'.

(noun.) the absence of life or state of being dead; 'he seemed more content in death than he had ever been in life'.

(noun.) the time at which life ends; continuing until dead; 'she stayed until his death'; 'a struggle to the last'.

(noun.) the time when something ends; 'it was the death of all his plans'; 'a dying of old hopes'.

Editor: Oswald--From WordNet

Definition

(v. i.) The cessation of all vital phenomena without capability of resuscitation, either in animals or plants.

(v. i.) Total privation or loss; extinction; cessation; as, the death of memory.

(v. i.) Manner of dying; act or state of passing from life.

(v. i.) Cause of loss of life.

(v. i.) Personified: The destroyer of life, -- conventionally represented as a skeleton with a scythe.

(v. i.) Danger of death.

(v. i.) Murder; murderous character.

(v. i.) Loss of spiritual life.

(v. i.) Anything so dreadful as to be like death.

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Synonyms and Synonymous

n. Decease, demise, dying, dissolution, departure, exit, end of life, King of terrors, debt of nature.

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Synonyms and Antonyms

SYN:Departure, demise, decease, dissolution, mortality, fall, failure, termination,cessation, expiration, release, exit

ANT:Birth, rise, life, growth, vigor, animation, spirit, activity, operation,action, commencement, vitality, auspices, inauguration

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Definition

n. state of being dead: extinction or cessation of life: manner of dying: mortality: a deadly plague: cause of death: spiritual lifelessness: the killing of the animal in hunting.—ns. Death′-add′er a poisonous Australian snake; Death′-ag′ony the struggle often preceding death; Death′-bed the bed on which one dies the last illness; Death′-bell the passing bell; Death′-blow a blow that causes death; Death′-damp a cold clammy sweat preceding death.—n.pl. Death′-dū′ties duties paid to government on the inheritance of property real or personal after the death of the former owner.—n. Death′-fire a kind of light supposed to presage death.—adjs. Death′ful Death′ly deadly destructive; Death′less never dying: everlasting.—n. Death′lessness.—adj. Death′-like (Shak.) like a dead person deadly.—n. Death′liness.—adj. Death′-marked marked for or by death destined to die.—n. Death′-mask a plaster-cast taken from the face after death.—adj. Death′-prac′tised (Shak.) threatened with death by malicious arts.—ns. Death′-rate the proportion of deaths to the population; Death′-ratt′le a rattling in the throat which sometimes accompanies the last uneasy breathings of a dying person; Death's′-door the point of death; Death's′-head the skull of a human skeleton or a figure of it; Death's′-man (Shak.) the public executioner; Death′-stroke a death-blow; Death′-throe the dying agony; Death′-tō′ken (Shak.) a sign or token of impending death a plague-spot; Death′-trap an unsafe building vessel or place that shuts up its occupants to almost certain death; Death′-warr′ant an order from the authorities for the execution of a criminal; Death′-watch a watch by a dying person: a popular name for several insects which produce a ticking noise specially audible in the stillness of a death-chamber; Death′-wound a wound which caused death.—Death's′-head moth a species of hawk-moth having pale markings on the back of the thorax somewhat like a skull.—Be death on to be fond of to be good at; Be in at the death in hunting to be up on the animal before the dogs have killed it.—Do or Put to death to kill: to cause to be killed.—Gates or Jaws of death death's door the point of death.—To death expressive of intensity very much.

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