Word Definition

Death

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

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