Thesaurus: death

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1. v. i. The cessation of all vital phenomena without capability of resuscitation, either in animals or plants.
2. v. i. Total privation or loss; extinction; cessation; as, the death of memory.
3. v. i. Manner of dying; act or state of passing from life.
4. v. i. Cause of loss of life.
5. v. i. Personified: The destroyer of life, -- conventionally represented as a skeleton with a scythe.
6. v. i. Danger of death.
7. v. i. Murder; murderous character.
8. v. i. Loss of spiritual life.
9. v. i. Anything so dreadful as to be like death.
10. n. the event of dying or departure from life
11. n. the permanent end of all life functions in an organism or part of an organism
12. n. the absence of life or state of being dead