Entry Word: death

Function: noun

Meaning: 1 the permanent stopping of all the vital bodily activities <we were all saddened by the death of our teacher>

Synonyms decease, demise, doom, end, passing, quietus

Related Words casualty, fatality; martyrdom, self-destruction, suicide; annihilation, destruction, ending, expiration, extermination, ruin

Near Antonyms existence, life; creation

Antonyms birth

2 the state of being dead <death is one of the few constants in the universe>

Synonyms deadness, lifelessness, sleep

Antonyms existence, life

3 the act of ceasing to exist <the death of the Soviet economic system in the wake of the breakup of the USSR>

Synonyms demise, expiration, termination

Related Words dispersion, dissolution; shutdown; decease, doom, end, ending, passing, quietus; suicide; annihilation, destruction, ruin

Near Antonyms existence

Antonyms beginning, creation, start