Death

What do we mean by death?

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

Bloodshed; murder. noun

Execution. noun

Civil death. noun

The termination or extinction of something. noun

(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. idiom

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

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.

(often capitalized) The personification of death as a hooded figure with a scythe; the Grim Reaper. The pronoun he is not the only option, but probably the most traditional one, as it matches with the male grammatical gender of Old English dēaþ, also with cognate German der Tod. The fourth apocalyptic rider (Bible, revelations 6:8) is male θᾰ́νᾰτος (thanatos) in Greek. It has the female name Mors in Latin, but is referred to with male forms qui and eum. The following quotes show this rider on a pale horse is his in the English Bible and she in Peter Gabriel's lyrics.

(the death) The collapse or end of something.

Spiritual lifelessness.

An excuse to get out of work Urban Dictionary

The cure for life Urban Dictionary

1. A horrible disease that's almost as bad a pregnancy. Symptoms include not living anymore, your body decaying, all of your money and possessions being given to relatives you may or may not know, and your body being put underground forever or being set on fire. 2. Like sleep, only more permanent. 3. Sleep's cousin. Urban Dictionary

Noun; the sweet release from this painful and utterly pointless life Urban Dictionary

The only guaranteed part of life. Urban Dictionary

The frist class ticket out of reality. Urban Dictionary

Some call it the end, some call it the beginning. 1. I call it the time of my life when I am settled firmly in the ground, rotting and beginning to smell and occupying space that will inevitibly violated by desperate citizens of the future world who, fearful of the diminishing land mass of their landfills, unearth my shrunken corpse of bones and worms and hastily send me to a creamatorium. There, and only there will I be able to reak havoc on those retched, materialistic bastards by unleashing my virulent, miniscule dust cells into their children's sleeping nasal cavities. 2. Or, you could call it the end of life. Urban Dictionary

The end of all. The opposite of life. Urban Dictionary

The sole good thing to come out of life. Without it there is no point of living, we all live for one purpose, to die. Urban Dictionary

1. The act of dying; termination of life. 2. The state of being dead. 3. The cause of dying: Drugs were the death of him. 4. A manner of dying: a heroine's death. 5. often Death A personification of the destroyer of life, usually represented as a skeleton holding a scythe. 6. a. Bloodshed; murder. b. Execution. 7. Law. Civil death. 8. The termination or extinction of something: the death of imperialism. Urban Dictionary

Words that are spelled similarly to death:
death, depth, heath, dearth, meath, neath, deah, deth, deat, leath, beath, eath, deats, reath, daath, sdeath, dath, dealth, deith, keath, derth, deash, cdeath, dmath, odeath.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word death:
penalty, toll, sentence, interred, sentences, widow, inherited, threats, baronet, funeral, buried, heir, suicide, succeeded, eldest, row, metal, nephew, execution, executed, unknown, throne.

Words that rhyme with death:
breath, shibboleth, seth, meth, beth, macbeth, daleth, heth, sneath, sheth, megadeath, neth, leth, out of breath, mcbeth, peth, meth-, take a breath, marybeth, speth, breth, gilbreath, culbreath, galbreath, mcbeath, creath, eldreth, greth.

Adjectives that are often used to describe death:
sudden, own, early, untimely, natural, premature, violent, certain, tragic, near, physical, second, impending, accidental, instant, slow, fetal, eternal, cardiac, spiritual, imminent, programmed, unexpected, cruel, immediate, recent, neuronal, horrible, painful, ignominious, actual, inevitable, eventual, quick, sacrificial, wrongful, subsequent, lingering, terrible, heroic, apoptotic, speedy, maternal, glorious, voluntary, induced, shameful, neonatal, peaceful, apparent, mysterious, and, rapid, grim, sure, miserable, intrauterine, happy, infant, easy, sad, lamented, perinatal, symbolic, related, dreadful, instantaneous, unnatural, even, agonizing, bloody, ultimate, temporal, swift, noble, life.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective death:
struggle, experience, experiences, rates, rate, decisions, bed, matter, situation, process, situations, life, penalty, state, issue, struggles, decision, certificate, battle, power, duties, dealing, matters, beds, states, watch, traps, wish, question, warrant, blow, model, crisis, consequences, experiencers, rebirth, row, bringing, sentence, song, overtime, scene, conflict, mask, drama, squad, questions, instinct, existence, benefits, throes, theme, trap, fight, god, game, syndrome, accounts, rattle, defying, emergency, agony, warrants, giving, encounter, visions, sentences, wishes, knell, playoff, valley, resurrection, affair, cries, rituals, phenomena, necessity, distribution, episode, phenomenon, implications, masks, songs, certificates, event, rites.

Consonant match to death:
dearth, doth, dith.

Words that sound like death:
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