| NOUN | event | death, decease, expiry | the event of dying or departure from life |
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| phenomenon | death | the permanent end of all life functions in an organism or part of an organism | |
| state | death | the absence of life or state of being dead | |
| time | death, dying, demise | the time when something ends | |
| time | death, last | the time at which life ends | |
| person | Death | the personification of death / death / death | |
| state | death, end, destruction | a final / final / final state | |
| act | death | the act of killing |
| Sounds | deh'th | |
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| Rhymes | beth ... Wyeth: 11 rhymes with ehth... | |
| Meaning | The permanent end of all life functions in an organism or part of an organism. | |
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| Example | "the animal died a painful death" | |
| Narrower | brain death, cerebral death | death when respiration and other reflexes are absent |
| necrobiosis, cell death | (physiology) the normal degeneration and death of living cells (as in various epithelial cells) | |
| necrosis, mortification, gangrene, sphacelus | The localized death of living cells (as from infection or the interruption of blood supply) | |
| Broader | organic phenomenon | (biology) a natural phenomenon involving living plants and animals |
| Spanish | muerte | |
| Catalan | mort | |
| Adjectives | mortuary | of or relating to or characteristic of death |
| Verbs | die | pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain / sustain life |
| die | suffer or face the pain of death | |
| Meaning | The absence of life or state of being dead. | |
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| Example | "he seemed more content in death than he had ever been in life" | |
| Narrower | extinction, defunctness | no longer in existence |
| neonatal death | death of a liveborn infant within the first 28 days of life | |
| rest, eternal rest, sleep, eternal sleep, quietus | euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb) | |
| sudden infant death syndrome, SIDS, infant death, crib death, cot death | sudden and unexpected death of an apparently healthy infant during sleep | |
| Broader | state | The way something is with respect to its main attributes |
| Spanish | muerte | |
| Catalan | mort | |
| Verbs | die | pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain / sustain life |
| die | suffer or face the pain of death | |
| Meaning | The time when something ends. | |
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| Example | "it was the death of all his plans" | |
| Synonyms | dying, demise | |
| Part of | life, lifetime, life-time, lifespan | The period during which something is functional (as between birth and death) |
| Narrower | grave | death of a person |
| Broader | end, ending | The point in time at which something ends |
| Opposite | birth | The time when something begins (especially life) |
| Spanish | muerte | |
| Catalan | defunció, mort | |
| Verbs | die | disappear or come to an end |
| Meaning | The time at which life ends; continuing until dead. | |
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| Example | "she stayed until his death" | |
| Synonym | last | |
| Broader | end, ending | The point in time at which something ends |
| Spanish | muerte | |
| Catalan | mort | |
| Verbs | die | pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain / sustain life |
| die | suffer or face the pain of death | |
| Meaning | The personification of death / death / death. | |
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| Instances | Grim Reaper, Reaper | Death personified as an old man or a skeleton with a scythe |
| Instance of | imaginary being, imaginary creature | A creature / creature of the imagination |
| Spanish | La Muerte, Muerte, muerte | |
| Catalan | La Mort | |
| Verbs | die | pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain / sustain life |
| die | suffer or face the pain of death | |
| Meaning | A final / final / final state. | |
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| Synonyms | end, destruction | |
| Broader | state | The way something is with respect to its main attributes |
| Spanish | destrucción, final, muerte | |
| Catalan | destrucció, final, mort | |
| Verbs | die | disappear or come to an end |
| Meaning | The act of killing. | |
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| Example | "he had two deaths on his conscience" | |
| Broader | killing, kill, putting to death | The act of terminating a life |
| Catalan | mort | |
| Adjectives | deathly | causing or capable of causing death |
| Verbs | die | pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain / sustain life |
| die | suffer or face the pain of death | |
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