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- DictionaryDeath/deTH/
noun
- 1. the action or fact of dying or being killed; the end of the life of a person or organism: "an increase in deaths from skin cancer" Similar demisedyingendpassingpassing awaypassing onloss of lifeexpiryexpirationdeparture from lifefinal exiteternal restmurderkillingassassinationexecutiondispatchslayingslaughtermassacreinformal:snuffingcurtainskicking the bucketdeceaserare:quietusOpposite life
- ▪ the state of being dead: "even in death, she was beautiful"
- ▪ the permanent ending of vital processes in a cell or tissue.
- ▪ the personification of the power that destroys life, often represented in art and literature as a skeleton or an old man holding a scythe. Similar the Grim Reaperthe Dark Angelthe Angel of Death
- ▪ the destruction or permanent end of something: "the death of her hopes" Similar endfinishcessationterminationextinctionextinguishingcollapseruinruinationdestructionexterminationeradicationannihilationobliterationextirpationOpposite birth
- ▪ a damaging or destructive state of affairs: "to be driven to a dance by one's father would be social death"
Word Origin Old Englishdēath, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch dood and German Tod, also to die1.
Derivatives
- 1. deathlike adjective
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