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Death   /dɛθ/   Listen
Death

noun
1.
The event of dying or departure from life.  Synonyms: decease, expiry.  "Upon your decease the capital will pass to your grandchildren"  Antonym: birth.
2.
The permanent end of all life functions in an organism or part of an organism.
3.
The absence of life or state of being dead.
4.
The time when something ends.  Synonyms: demise, dying.  "A dying of old hopes"  Antonym: birth.
5.
The time at which life ends; continuing until dead.  Synonym: last.  "A struggle to the last"
6.
The personification of death.
7.
A final state.  Synonyms: destruction, end.  "The so-called glorious experiment came to an inglorious end"
8.
The act of killing.



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"Death" Quotes from Famous Books



... of Logport, and, joining with reinforcements from the marshes, moved solemnly upon the hills. Ten minutes more and the landscape was utterly blotted out; simultaneously the wind died away, and a death-like silence stole over sea and shore. The faint clang, high overhead, of unseen brent, the nearer call of invisible plover, the lap and wash of undistinguishable waters, and the monotonous roll of the vanished ocean, were the only sounds. As night deepened, ...
— Mrs. Skaggs's Husbands and Other Stories • Bret Harte

... the sudu-sudu (Euphorbia neriifolia) is valued highly by the natives for medicinal purposes. Its leaves eaten by sheep or goats occasion present death. ...
— The History of Sumatra - Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And - Manners Of The Native Inhabitants • William Marsden

... ghost exists," said Lord Canterville, smiling, "though it may have resisted the overtures of your enterprising impresarios. It has been well known for three centuries, since 1584 in fact, and always makes its appearance before the death of any ...
— The Canterville Ghost • Oscar Wilde

... Bumble Bee Inn for tea. You needn't be a prig about it! Lots of really nice people go, and what's the harm?" She picked up her gloves and trailed to the door. "I suppose you'll ask who I was with next, and I sha'n't tell you, my dear. I'm bored to death doing the same old proper thing all the time! ...
— The Fifth Ace • Douglas Grant

... scarcely breathe. It was just as if something lay upon his heart. He opened his eyes and then he saw that it was Death who sat upon his heart, and had put on his golden crown and held the Emperor's sword. And all around, from among the folds of the splendid curtains, strange heads peered forth, some ugly, and some quite lovely ...
— Tell Me Another Story - The Book of Story Programs • Carolyn Sherwin Bailey


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