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The personification of death, often a skeleton with a scythe, and one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Synonyms: the angel of death, Azrael, the Grim Reaper, the reaper, the pale rider, the rider, psychopomp, Santa Muerte, the Shinigami
Antonyms: none provided
name
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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noun
The cessation of life and all associated processes; the end of an organism's existence as an entity independent from its environment and its return to an inert, nonliving state.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
The cessation of life and all associated processes; the end of an organism's existence as an entity independent from its environment and its return to an inert, nonliving state.
Execution (in the judicial sense).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
The personification of death as a (usually male) hooded figure with a scythe; the Grim Reaper.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: capitalized, countable, often, uncountable
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
The collapse or end of something.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Qualifier: preceded by the
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noun
The collapse or end of something.
A cause of great stress, exhaustion, embarrassment, or another negative condition (for someone).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, especially, figuratively, uncountable
Qualifier: preceded by the
Synonyms: none provided
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noun
Spiritual lifelessness.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, figuratively, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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noun
the act of killing
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: killing, kill, putting to death
noun
the event of dying or departure from life
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: decease, expiry
Antonyms: birth
Broader terms: change, alteration, modification
Narrower terms: fatality, human death, martyrdom, megadeath, passing, loss, departure, exit, expiration, going, release, wrongful death, Crucifixion
noun
the personification of death
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: imaginary being, imaginary creature
Narrower terms: Grim Reaper, Reaper
noun
the permanent end of all life functions in an organism or part of an organism
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: organic phenomenon
Narrower terms: necrobiosis, cell death, necrosis, mortification, gangrene, sphacelus, brain death, cerebral death
noun
the absence of life or state of being dead
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: state
Narrower terms: rest, eternal rest, sleep, eternal sleep, quietus, extinction, defunctness, neonatal death, sudden infant death syndrome, SIDS, infant death, crib death, cot death
noun
a final state
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: end, destruction
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: state
noun
the time at which life ends; continuing until dead
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: last
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: end, ending
noun
the time when something ends
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: dying, demise
Antonyms: birth
Broader terms: end, ending
Narrower terms: grave
History
From Middle English deth, deeth, from Old English dēaþ, from Proto-West Germanic *dauþu, from Proto-Germanic *dauþuz, from Proto-Indo-European *dhówtus. More at die. Cognates Cognate with Scots daeth, daith, death, deeth, deith (“death”), North Frisian Duar, duas, düüs (“death”), Saterland Frisian Dood (“death”), West Frisian dea (“death”), Dutch dood (“death”), German Tod, Todt (“death”), Limburgish doead (“death”), Luxembourgish Doud (“death”), Yiddish טויט (toyt, “death”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål død (“death”), Faroese deyði (“death”), Icelandic dauði (“death”), Norwegian Nynorsk daude, død (“death”), Swedish död (“death”), Gothic 𐌳𐌰𐌿𐌸𐌿𐍃 (dauþus, “death”).
Across languages
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