Death

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  • noun. The act of dying; termination of life.
  • noun. The state of being dead.
  • noun. The cause of dying.
  • noun. A manner of dying.
  • noun. A personification of the destroyer of life, usually represented as a skeleton holding a scythe.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. Bloodshed; murder.
  • noun. Execution.
  • noun. Civil death.
  • noun. The termination or extinction of something.
  • idiom. (at death's door) Near to death; gravely ill or injured.
  • idiom. (be the death of) To distress or irritate to an intolerable degree.
  • idiom. (death on) Opposed to or strict about.
  • idiom. (put to death) To execute.
  • idiom. (to death) To an intolerable degree; extremely.
  • idiom. (to the death) Until one participant in a fight or struggle has died or been killed.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Cessation of life; that state of a being, animal or vegetable, in which there is a total and permanent cessation of all the vital functions, In the abstract.
  • noun. Actual.
  • noun. Figurative or poetical.
  • noun. [In poetry and poetical prose death is often personified.
  • noun. A general mortality; a deadly plague; a fatal epidemic: as, the black death (which see, below).
  • noun. The cessation of life in a particular part of an organic body, as a bone.
  • noun. A skeleton, or the figure of a skeleton, as the symbol of mortality: as, a death's head.
  • noun. A cause, agent, or instrument of death.
  • noun. Imminent deadly peril.
  • noun. A capital offense; an offense punishable with death.
  • noun. The state or place of the dead.
  • noun. The mode or manner of dying.
  • noun. Something as dreadful as death.
  • noun. In Scripture: The reverse of spiritual life; the mere physical and sensuous life, without any activity of the spiritual or religious nature.
  • noun. After physical death, the final doom of those who have lived and died in separation from God and the divine life.
  • noun. A slaughtering or killing.
  • noun. To be passionately fond of; have a great liking or capacity for: as, he was death on the sherry.
  • noun. Mortally; to death.
  • noun. Synonyms Death, Decease, Demise. See decease.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The cessation of all vital phenomena without capability of resuscitation, either in animals or plants.
  • noun. Total privation or loss; extinction; cessation.
  • noun. Manner of dying; act or state of passing from life.
  • noun. Cause of loss of life.
  • noun. Personified: The destroyer of life, -- conventionally represented as a skeleton with a scythe.
  • noun. Danger of death.
  • noun. Murder; murderous character.
  • noun. Loss of spiritual life.
  • noun. Anything so dreadful as to be like death.
  • noun. See Black death, in the Vocabulary.
  • noun. the separation of a man from civil society, or the debarring him from the enjoyment of civil rights, as by banishment, attainder, abjuration of the realm, entering a monastery, etc.
  • noun. A venomous Australian snake of the family Elapidæ, of several species, as the Hoplocephalus superbus and Acanthopis antarctica.
  • noun. a bell that announces a death.
  • noun. a light like that of a candle, viewed by the superstitious as presaging death.
  • noun. a cold sweat at the coming on of death.
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