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 Definitions of DEATH  [ɛθ]  

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Definition of 'DEATH' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (n.) death
the act of dying; the end of life.

2.  death
the state of being dead.

3.  death
extinction; destruction.

4.  death
(usu. cap.) the agent of death personified, usu. represented as the Grim Reaper.

5.  death
loss or absence of spiritual life.

6.  death
massacre; mayhem.

7.  death
a cause of death:
You'll be the death of me yet!

8.  death
to do so often that boredom or staleness sets in.


Definition of 'DEATH' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) death, decease, expiry
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"

2. (noun) death
the permanent end of all life functions in an organism or part of an organism
"the animal died a painful death"

3. (noun) death
the absence of life or state of being dead
"he seemed more content in death than he had ever been in life"

4. (noun) death, dying, demise
the time when something ends
"it was the death of all his plans"; "a dying of old hopes"

5. (noun) death, last
the time at which life ends; continuing until dead
"she stayed until his death"; "a struggle to the last"

6. (noun) Death
the personification of death
"Death walked the streets of the plague-bound city"

7. (noun) end, destruction, death
a final state
"he came to a bad end"; "the so-called glorious experiment came to an inglorious end"

8. (noun) death
the act of killing
"he had two deaths on his conscience"


Definition of 'DEATH' Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary 

1. (noun) death
the end of sb's life
She lived here until her death.; the number of deaths at the hospital; a slow/sudden/violent death

2.  death
death toll
the number of people killed in a disaster, war, etc.
The death toll has reached 452.

3.  death
the state of being dead
I'm not afraid of death.; victims who were beaten to death; What was the cause of death?

4.  death
put sb to death
to kill sb as a punishment

5.  death
the death of sth
the time when sth ends
the death of privacy in the 21st century

6.  death
be the death of sb
indicates that sth frustrates sb very much
Calculus will be the death of me.

7.  death
to death
very much; = extremely
Rollercoasters scare me to death.; bored to death


Definition of 'DEATH' Webster Dictionary 

1. (verb) DEATH
the cessation of all vital phenomena without capability of resuscitation, either in animals or plants

2. (verb) DEATH
total privation or loss; extinction; cessation; as, the death of memory

3. (verb) DEATH
manner of dying; act or state of passing from life

4. (verb) DEATH
cause of loss of life

5. (verb) DEATH
personified: The destroyer of life, -- conventionally represented as a skeleton with a scythe

6. (verb) DEATH
danger of death

7. (verb) DEATH
murder; murderous character

8. (verb) DEATH
loss of spiritual life

9. (verb) DEATH
anything so dreadful as to be like death


Definitions of 'DEATH' The Roycroft Dictionary 

DEATH
1. To stop sinning suddenly.

2. To resign one's membership in the Ananias Club.

3. A readjustment of life's forces.


Definition of 'DEATH' U.S. National Library of Medicine 

1.  DEATH
Irreversible cessation of all bodily functions, manifested by absence of spontaneous breathing and total loss of cardiovascular and cerebral functions.


Translation of 'DEATH' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: the act of dying
There have been several deaths in the town recently; Most people fear death.

Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: dood Arabic flag Arabic: مَوْت Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: смърт
Brazilian flag Brazilian: morte Czech flag Czech: úmrtí, smrt German flag German: der Tod
Danish flag Danish: dødsfald; døden Greek flag Greek: θάνατος Spanish flag Spanish: muerte
Estonian flag Estonian: surm, surmajuhtum Farsi flag Farsi: مرگ Finnish flag Finnish: kuolema
French flag French: mort, décès Hebrew flag Hebrew: מָוֶות Hindi flag Hindi: मृत्यु, मौत
Croatian flag Croatian: umiranje Hungarian flag Hungarian: halál Indonesian flag Indonesian: kematian
Icelandic flag Icelandic: dauði Italian flag Italian: morte Japanese flag Japanese: 
Korean flag Korean: 죽음 Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: mirtis Latvian flag Latvian: nāve
Malay flag Malay: kematian Dutch flag Dutch: dood Norwegian flag Norwegian: død(en), dødsfall
Polish flag Polish: śmierć Persian flag Persian: مرگ Pashto flag Pashto: مړينه، مرګ،دمړينې حالت، م
Portuguese flag Portuguese: morte Romanian flag Romanian: moarte, deces Russian flag Russian: смерть
Slovak flag Slovak: úmrtie Slovenian flag Slovenian: smrt Serbian flag Serbian: smrt
Swedish flag Swedish: död[en], dödsfall Thai flag Thai: การตาย Turkish flag Turkish: ölüm
Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 滅亡 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: смерть; конання Urdu flag Urdu: موت
Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: cái chết Chinese flag Chinese: 灭亡

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