knell
Webster Dictionary
to sound as a knell; especially, to toll at a death or funeral; hence, to sound as a warning or evil omen
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knoll
(ʊl)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
to sound a knell.
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coroner
Webster Dictionary
an officer of the peace whose principal duty is to inquire, with the help of a jury, into the cause of any violent, sudden or mysterious death, or death in prison, usually on sight of the body and at the place where the death occurred
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toll
(ʊl)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
to sound or strike (a knell, the hour, etc.) by such strokes.
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toll
(ʊl)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
to announce by this means; ring a knell for (a dying or dead person).
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knelled
Webster Dictionary
of Knell
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knelling
Webster Dictionary
of Knell
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knell
Webster Dictionary
to summon, as by a knell
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knoll
Webster Dictionary
to sound, as a bell; to knell
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knoll
Webster Dictionary
the tolling of a bell; a knell
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knoll
Webster Dictionary
to ring, as a bell; to strike a knell upon; to toll; to proclaim, or summon, by ringing
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autopsy
(ˈɔ tɒp si, ˈɔ təp-)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
the inspection and dissection of a body after death, as for determination of the cause of death; postmortem examination.
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execution
Webster Dictionary
a putting to death as a legal penalty; death lawfully inflicted; as, the execution of a murderer
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death's-head
Webster Dictionary
a naked human skull as the emblem of death; the head of the conventional personification of death
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martyr
Webster Dictionary
one who, by his death, bears witness to the truth of the gospel; one who is put to death for his religion; as, Stephen was the first Christian martyr
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deadly
Webster Dictionary
capable of causing death; mortal; fatal; destructive; certain or likely to cause death; as, a deadly blow or wound
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death wish
(ˈdɛθˌwɒtʃ, -ˌwɔtʃ)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
a conscious or unconscious desire for one's own death or for the death of another.
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capital punishment
(ˈkæp ɪ tl i)
Random House Webster's College Dictionary
punishment by death for a crime; death penalty.
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strangle
Webster Dictionary
to compress the windpipe of (a person or animal) until death results from stoppage of respiration; to choke to death by compressing the throat, as with the hand or a rope
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namtar
(Namtar, Namtaru)
Princeton's WordNet
a demon personifying death; messenger of the underworld goddess Ereshkigal bringing death to mankind
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namtaru
(Namtar, Namtaru)
Princeton's WordNet
a demon personifying death; messenger of the underworld goddess Ereshkigal bringing death to mankind
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rattle
Webster Dictionary
the noise in the throat produced by the air in passing through mucus which the lungs are unable to expel; -- chiefly observable at the approach of death, when it is called the death rattle. See R/le
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thanatopsis
Webster Dictionary
a view of death; a meditation on the subject of death
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wrongful death
(wrongful death)
Princeton's WordNet
a death that results from a wrongful act or from negligence; a death that can serve as the basis for a civil action for damages on behalf of the dead person's family or heirs
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do
Webster Dictionary
to put or bring into a form, state, or condition, especially in the phrases, to do death, to put to death; to slay; to do away (often do away with), to put away; to remove; to do on, to put on; to don; to do off, to take off, as dress; to doff; to do into, to put into the form of; to translate or transform into, as a text
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heir
Webster Dictionary
one who inherits, or is entitled to succeed to the possession of, any property after the death of its owner; one on whom the law bestows the title or property of another at the death of the latter
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mort
Webster Dictionary
death; esp., the death of game in the chase
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obit
Webster Dictionary
death; decease; the date of one's death
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martyrdom
Webster Dictionary
the condition of a martyr; the death of a martyr; the suffering of death on account of adherence to the Christian faith, or to any cause
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obituary
Webster Dictionary
that which pertains to, or is called forth by, the obit or death of a person; esp., an account of a deceased person; a notice of the death of a person, accompanied by a biographical sketch
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