death

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).

(often capitalized) The personification of death as a (usually male) hooded figure with a scythe; the Grim Reaper.

(preceded by the) The collapse or end of something.

(figuratively, especially followed by of-phrase) A cause of great stress, exhaustion, embarrassment, or another negative condition (for someone).

(figurative) Spiritual lifelessness.

The personification of death, often a skeleton with a scythe, and one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse.

Synonyms for death

demisen deceasen dyingn mortalityn expiryn fataladj destructionn

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