| death | | |
| n. (event) | 1. death, decease, expiry | 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" |
| ~ alteration, change, modification | an event that occurs when something passes from one state or phase to another.; "the change was intended to increase sales"; "this storm is certainly a change for the worse"; "the neighborhood had undergone few modifications since his last visit years ago" |
| ~ crucifixion | the death of Jesus by crucifixion. |
| ~ fatality, human death | a death resulting from an accident or a disaster.; "a decrease in the number of automobile fatalities" |
| ~ martyrdom | death that is imposed because of the person's adherence of a religious faith or cause. |
| ~ megadeath | the death of a million people.; "they calibrate the effects of atom bombs in megadeaths" |
| ~ exit, expiration, going, passing, departure, release, loss | euphemistic expressions for death.; "thousands mourned his passing" |
| ~ wrongful death | a death that results from a wrongful act or from negligence; a death that can serve as the basis for a civil action for damages on behalf of the dead person's family or heirs. |
| n. (phenomenon) | 2. death | the permanent end of all life functions in an organism or part of an organism.; "the animal died a painful death" |
| ~ organic phenomenon | (biology) a natural phenomenon involving living plants and animals. |
| ~ cell death, necrobiosis | (physiology) the normal degeneration and death of living cells (as in various epithelial cells). |
| ~ necrosis, gangrene, mortification, sphacelus | the localized death of living cells (as from infection or the interruption of blood supply). |
| ~ brain death, cerebral death | death when respiration and other reflexes are absent; consciousness is gone; organs can be removed for transplantation before the heartbeat stops. |
| n. (state) | 3. death | the absence of life or state of being dead.; "he seemed more content in death than he had ever been in life" |
| ~ state | the way something is with respect to its main attributes.; "the current state of knowledge"; "his state of health"; "in a weak financial state" |
| ~ eternal rest, eternal sleep, quietus, sleep, rest | euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb).; "she was laid to rest beside her husband"; "they had to put their family pet to sleep" |
| ~ defunctness, extinction | no longer in existence.; "the extinction of a species" |
| ~ neonatal death | death of a liveborn infant within the first 28 days of life. |
| ~ cot death, crib death, infant death, sids, sudden infant death syndrome | sudden and unexpected death of an apparently healthy infant during sleep. |
| n. (time) | 4. death, demise, dying | the time when something ends.; "it was the death of all his plans"; "a dying of old hopes" |
| ~ life-time, lifespan, lifetime, life | the period during which something is functional (as between birth and death).; "the battery had a short life"; "he lived a long and happy life" |
| ~ grave | death of a person.; "he went to his grave without forgiving me"; "from cradle to grave" |
| ~ end, ending | the point in time at which something ends.; "the end of the year"; "the ending of warranty period" |
| n. (time) | 5. death, last | the time at which life ends; continuing until dead.; "she stayed until his death"; "a struggle to the last" |
| ~ end, ending | the point in time at which something ends.; "the end of the year"; "the ending of warranty period" |
| n. (person) | 6. death | the personification of death.; "Death walked the streets of the plague-bound city" |
| ~ imaginary being, imaginary creature | a creature of the imagination; a person that exists only in legends or myths or fiction. |
| ~ grim reaper, reaper | Death personified as an old man or a skeleton with a scythe. |
| n. (state) | 7. death, destruction, end | a final state.; "he came to a bad end"; "the so-called glorious experiment came to an inglorious end" |
| ~ state | the way something is with respect to its main attributes.; "the current state of knowledge"; "his state of health"; "in a weak financial state" |
| n. (act) | 8. death | the act of killing.; "he had two deaths on his conscience" |
| ~ kill, putting to death, killing | the act of terminating a life. |
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