1. Verb
The cessation of all vital phenomena without capability of resuscitation, either in animals or plants.
2. Verb
Total privation or loss; extinction; cessation; as, the death of memory.
3. Verb
Manner of dying; act or state of passing from life.
4. Verb
Cause of loss of life.
5. Verb
Personified: The destroyer of life, -- conventionally represented as a skeleton with a scythe.
6. Verb
Danger of death.
7. Verb
Murder; murderous character.
8. Verb
Loss of spiritual life.
9. Verb
Anything so dreadful as to be like death.
10. Noun
the act of killing; "he had two deaths on his conscience"
Vocabulary classified under Law
11. Noun
the permanent end of all life functions in an organism or part of an organism; "the animal died a painful death"
Vocabulary classified under Biology
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