death
death
nounDefinition of DEATH
1
the permanent stopping of all the vital bodily activities <we were all saddened by the death of our friend>
Synonyms curtains, decease, demise, dissolution, doom, end, exit, expiration, expiry, fate, grave, great divide, passage, passing, quietus, sleep
Related Words casualty, fatality; martyrdom, self-destruction, self-murder, self-slaughter, suicide; annihilation, destruction, ending, extermination, ruin; assassination, execution, killing, massacre, slaughter
2
the state of being dead <death is one of the few constants in the universe>
Related Words mortality
3
the act of ceasing to exist <the death of the Soviet economic system in the wake of the breakup of the USSR>
Related Words dispersion, dissolution; cessation, close, conclusion, decease, discontinuance, doom, end, ending, finish, halt, lapse, passing, quietus, shutdown, shutoff, stop, stoppage, surcease; suicide; annihilation, destruction, ruin
Near Antonyms existence, persistence, prolongation; inauguration, initiation, institution, origination
Antonyms alpha, beginning, birth, commencement, creation, dawn, genesis, inception, incipience, incipiency, launch, morning, onset, outset, start
4
something that is the cause of one's ultimate failure or loss of life <that muscle car will be the death of him yet>
5
the killing of a large number of people <thousands of soldiers were lost on the field of death>
Related Words bloodletting, bloodshed, foul play, homicide, killing, manslaughter, murder, slaying; mortality; annihilation, decimation, demolishing, destruction, devastation, eradication, extermination; genocide, pogrom; assassination, execution
