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DEATH

Definition:

1. [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"
   Synonyms: decease
   
   
2. [noun] the permanent end of all life functions in an organism or part of an organism; "the animal died a painful death"
   
   
3. [noun] the time at which life ends; continuing until dead; "she stayed until his death"; "a struggle to the last"
   Synonyms: last
   
   
4. [noun] the personification of death; "Death walked the streets of the plague-bound city"
   Synonyms: Death
   
   
5. [noun] the absence of life or state of being dead; "he seemed more content in death than he had ever been in life"
   
   
6. [noun] the time when something ends; "it was the death of all his plans"; "a dying of old hopes"
   Synonyms: dying, demise
   
   
7. [noun] the act of killing; "he had two deaths on his conscience"
   
   
8. [noun] a final state; "he came to a bad end"; "the so-called glorious experiment came to an inglorious end"
   Synonyms: end, destruction
   
   

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Related Words:

• Crucifixion
• fatality, human death
• martyrdom
• megadeath
• passing, loss, departure, exit, expiration, going, release
• wrongful death
• necrobiosis, cell death
• necrosis, mortification, gangrene, sphacelus
• brain death, cerebral death
• Grim Reaper, Reaper
• rest, eternal rest, sleep, eternal sleep, quietus
• extinction, defunctness
• neonatal death
• sudden infant death syndrome, SIDS, infant death, crib death, cot death
• grave

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