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Definitions of death:
  • noun:   the act of killing
    Example: "He had two deaths on his conscience"
  • noun:   the event of dying or departure from life
    Example: "Her death came as a terrible shock"
  • noun:   the personification of death
    Example: "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
    Example: "The animal died a painful death"
  • noun:   the absence of life or state of being dead
    Example: "He seemed more content in death than he had ever been in life"
  • noun:   the time at which life ends; continuing until dead
    Example: "She stayed until his death"
  • noun:   the time when something ends
    Example: "It was the death of all his plans"
  • noun:   a final state




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Words and phrases that have a meaning related to death:   (341 results)

Synonyms:
decease, demise, destruction, dying, end, last

Part of:
life, lifespan, lifetime

More general:
alteration, change, ending, imaginary being, imaginary creature, kill, killing, modification, organic phenomenon, putting to death, state

More specific:
brain death, cerebral death, crucifixion, defunctness, departure, eternal rest, eternal sleep, exit, expiration, extinction, fatality, finish, going, grave, grim reaper, human death, local death, loss, martyrdom, megadeath, necrobiosis, necrosis, passing, quietus, release, rest, sleep

Antonyms:
birth, nascence, nascency, nativity

Often used in the same context:
die, dead, left, blood, murder, hate, hell, evil, fear, suicide, heaven, deaf, god, war, darkness, died, tears, fate, lies, lives, nation, jesus, killer, sadness, spirit, test, chaos, despair, devil, gun, poison, sin, step, suffering, survive, wealth, zone, beer, breathe, dawn, depth, doom, drugs, eternal, fat, flow, grief, knife, passed, respect, shadow, strife, tragedy, ugly, abuse, ben, bet, bomb, cruel, crying, debt, enemy, eulogy, exist, fake, flame, flesh, greed, guns, hatred, health, lion, marriage, mirror, park, pieces, reaper, set, silence, tongue, violence, after, bat, blast, brave

Appears in the definition of:
abraham's bosom, accident, ace of spades, advance death benefit, afterlife, agonal, amanita mappa, antemortem, antigone, antipersonnel, asleep, asp, asystole, auto-da-fe, autopsy, bane, banshee, bereave, bereavement, biennial, bosom of abraham, brokenheartedness, cachet, capital punishment, cardiac arrest, cardiac resuscitation, cardiopulmonary arrest, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, caries, cavity, chair, charnel, common opossum, compassionate leave, conclusiveness, condole, coroner, cot death, cpr, crib death, crossbones, curse, dance of death, danse macabre, deadly, deathbed, death bell, death chair, death house, death knell, deathlike, deathly, death penalty, death's head, death warrant, deathwatch, deathwatch beetle, decisiveness, dental caries, didelphis marsupialis, didelphis virginiana, doomed, dower, draco, edward v, egyptian cobra, electra, electric chair, ereshkigal, eresh-kigal, ereshkigel, eschatology, executed, executing, execution, expiring, fall of man, false deathcap, fatal, finality, gangrene, gangrenous, gehenna, ghastly, ghoulish, gross estate, hangman's halter, hangman's rope, harry s. truman, harry truman, heartache, heartbreak, hemp, hempen necktie, hereafter, herod, herod the great, hot seat, immortal, immortality, in extremis, infant deathrate, infantile amaurotic idiocy, infant mortality, infant mortality rate, inquest, intestate, john, john lackland, joshua, juvenile amaurotic idiocy, knell, kuru, last rites, lazarus, leave, leave behind, lethal, lethal dose, lettre de cachet, life peer, loki, lose, lynching, maitreya, malignance, malignancy, maple syrup urine disease, mara, martyr, medical examiner, metempsychosis, minos, morbid, moribund, mortal, mortality table, mortally, mortified, mortuary, mourn, mourning, naja haje, namtar, namtaru, naturalness, necrology, necropsy, nemesis, new testament, nitrogen fixation, nonfatal, nonlethal, obit, obituary, ordinary, orphan, orphaned, periodic apnea of the newborn, perishable, personnel casualty, phoenix, pm, poison camas, posthumous, posthumously, postmortal, postmortem, postmortem examination, rebirth, reprieve, reversion, rigor mortis, sachs disease, sad, sadden, scourge, sepulchral, shibah, shiva, shivah, sids, skull and crossbones, slayer, spielmeyer-vogt disease, status epilepticus, sudden infant death syndrome, suspended animation, tartarus, tay-sachs, tay-sachs disease, terminal, testate, thanatophobia, tontine, tontine insurance, tooth decay, tragic, tragical, transmigration, truman, widowed, workmen's compensation, xestobium rufovillosum, zigadenus nuttalli



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