death
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(noun) the act of killing; "he had two deaths on his conscience" |
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Related Words: kill, killing, putting to death |
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(noun) 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" |
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Synonyms: decease |
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Related Words: Crucifixion, alteration, change, departure, exit, expiration, fatality, finish, going, human death, loss, martyrdom, megadeath, modification, passing, release |
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Antonyms: birth |
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(noun) the personification of death; "Death walked the streets of the plague-bound city" |
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Related Words: grim reaper, imaginary being, imaginary creature |
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(noun) the permanent end of all life functions in an organism or part of an organism; "the animal died a painful death" |
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Related Words: brain death, cerebral death, local death, necrobiosis, necrosis, organic phenomenon |
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(noun) the absence of life or state of being dead; "he seemed more content in death than he had ever been in life" |
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Related Words: defunctness, eternal rest, eternal sleep, extinction, quietus, rest, sleep, state |
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(noun) the end of life; continuing until dead; "he bled to death"; "a struggle to the last" |
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Synonyms: last |
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Related Words: end, ending |
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(noun) the time when something ends; "it was the death of all his plans"; "a dying of old hopes" |
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Synonyms: demise, dying |
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Related Words: end, ending, grave |
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Antonyms: birth |
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(noun) a final state; "he came to a bad end"; "the so-called glorious experiment came to an inglorious end" |
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Synonyms: destruction, end |
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Related Words: state |
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