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Meaning of 'death' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Death [ v. i.]
- The cessation of all vital phenomena without capability of resuscitation, either in animals or plants.
- Total privation or loss; extinction; cessation; as, the death of memory.
- Manner of dying; act or state of passing from life.
- Cause of loss of life.
- Personified: The destroyer of life, -- conventionally represented as a skeleton with a scythe.
- Danger of death.
- Murder; murderous character.
- Loss of spiritual life.
- Anything so dreadful as to be like death.

Meaning of 'death' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . death [ n]
Meaning (1):
- the time when something ends
Example in sentence:
  • a dying of old hopes;
  • it was the death of all his plans
Meaning (2):
- the time at which life ends; continuing until dead
Example in sentence:
  • a struggle to the last;
  • she stayed until his death
Meaning (3):
- the personification of death
Example in sentence:
  • Death walked the streets of the plague-bound city
Meaning (4):
- a final state
Example in sentence:
  • he came to a bad end;
  • the so-called glorious experiment came to an inglorious end
Meaning (5):
- the act of killing
Example in sentence:
  • he had two deaths on his conscience
Meaning (6):
- the absence of life or state of being dead
Example in sentence:
  • he seemed more content in death than he had ever been in life
Meaning (7):
- the event of dying or departure from life
Example in sentence:
  • her death came as a terrible shock;
  • upon your decease the capital will pass to your grandchildren
Meaning (8):
- the permanent end of all life functions in an organism or part of an organism
Example in sentence:
  • the animal died a painful death

Nearby Words:

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