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| Word | Syllables | Categories | 
|---|---|---|
| death rattle | //x | Phrase, Noun | 
| dies | / | Noun | 
| last gasp | // | Phrase, Noun | 
| convulsions | x/x | Noun | 
| deathly | /x | Adjective | 
| last rites | // | Phrase, Noun | 
| death knell | // | Phrase, Noun | 
| death toll | // | Phrase, Noun | 
| mortalities | x/xx | Noun | 
| apoptotic | xxxx | Adjective | 
| terminally | /xxx | Adverb | 
| apoptosis | xx/x | Noun | 
| decomposition | xxx/x | Noun | 
| die off | // | Phrase, Verb | 
| deathbed | /x | Noun | 
| sufferings | /xx | Noun | 
| hemorrhaging | /xxx | Noun | 
| swan song | // | Phrase, Noun | 
| birth pangs | // | Phrase, Noun | 
| death rate | // | Phrase, Noun | 
| deaths | / | Noun | 
| agonising | /xxx | Adjective | 
| disintegrating | x/xxx | Noun | 
| heart failure | //x | Phrase, Noun | 
| disintegration | xxx/x | Noun | 
| heart attack | /x/ | Phrase, Noun | 
| perishing | /xx | Noun | 
| climactic | x/x | Adjective | 
| collapsing | x/x | Verb | 
| sudden death | /x/ | Phrase, Noun | 
| denouement | xx/ | Noun | 
| death warrant | //x | Phrase, Noun | 
| terminally ill | /xxxx | Phrase, Adjective | 
| necrosis | x/x | Noun | 
| executions | xx/x | Noun | 
| despairing | x/x | Noun | 
| convulsively | x/xx | Adverb | 
| senescence | x/x | Noun | 
| agonies | /xx | Noun | 
| panic attack | /xx/ | Phrase, Noun | 
| suffocation | xx/x | Noun | 
| dissolution | xx/x | Noun | 
| extinction | x/x | Noun | 
| starvation | x/x | Noun | 
| endings | /x | Noun | 
| tormented | /xx | Adjective | 
| pass away | /x/ | Phrase, Verb | 
| decaying | x/x | Verb | 
| tribulations | xx/x | Noun | 
| incineration | x/xxx | Noun | 
| mortality rate | x/xx/ | Phrase, Noun | 
| bitter end | /x/ | Phrase, Noun | 
| cardiac arrest | /xxx/ | Name, Name | 
| mortally | /xx | Adverb | 
| devastation | xx/x | Noun | 
| bloodbath | /x | Noun | 
| accident | /xx | Noun, Adjective | 
| actual | /xx | Adjective, Noun | 
| afterlife | /xx | Noun | 
| alive | x/ | Adjective | 
| annihilation | xxx/x | Noun | 
| assassination | xxx/x | Noun | 
| awful | /x | Adjective, Adverb | 
| beat | / | Verb, Noun, Adjective | 
| bereavement | x/x | Noun | 
| biggie | /x | Noun | 
| birth | / | Noun, Adjective, Verb | 
| black | / | Adjective, Name, Verb | 
| blood | / | Noun, Verb | 
| burial | /xx | Noun | 
| bury | /x | Verb, Noun | 
| busted | /x | Adjective | 
| calamitous | x/xx | Adjective | 
| capitals | /xx | Noun | 
| carrion | /xx | Noun, Adjective | 
| casualties | /xxx | Noun | 
| commonplace | /xx | Adjective, Noun, Verb | 
| complicated | /xxx | Adjective | 
| coroner | /xx | Noun | 
| corpse | / | Noun, Verb | 
| cremation | x/x | Noun | 
| crucifixion | xx/x | Noun | 
| culmination | xx/x | Noun | 
| dead | / | Adjective, Noun, Adverb, Verb | 
| deadly | /x | Adjective, Adverb | 
| decease | x/ | Noun, Verb | 
| defying | x/x | Verb, Adjective | 
| deliverance | x/xx | Noun | 
| departure | x/x | Noun | 
| destined | /x | Adjective | 
| destruction | x/x | Noun | 
| difficulties | /xxx | Noun | 
| disappearance | xx/x | Noun | 
| disappearing | xx/x | Noun | 
| dismemberment | x/xx | Noun | 
| dog | / | Noun, Verb, Adjective | 
| doom | / | Noun, Verb | 
| dot | / | Noun, Verb | 
| downfall | /x | Noun, Verb | 
| dread | / | Noun, Adjective, Verb | 
| eclipse | x/ | Noun, Verb | 
| embarrassing | x/xx | Adjective, Noun | 
| end | / | Noun, Verb | 
| evils | /x | Noun | 
| executed | /xxx | Adjective | 
| exhaustion | x/x | Noun | 
| exit | /x | Noun, Verb | 
| expiration | xx/x | Noun | 
| extermination | xxx/x | Noun | 
| extirpation | /xxx | Noun | 
| extrajudicial | xxx/x | Adjective | 
| fatal | /x | Adjective, Noun | 
| fatalities | x/xx | Noun | 
| father | /x | Noun, Verb | 
| finish | /x | Verb, Noun | 
| fruition | x/x | Noun | 
| frustrating | /xx | Adjective | 
| funeral | /xx | Noun, Adjective | 
| going | /x | Verb, Noun, Adjective | 
| goner | /x | Noun | 
| goon | / | Noun, Verb | 
| grave | / | Noun, Adjective, Verb | 
| greatly | /x | Adverb | 
| grief | / | Noun, Verb | 
| grim reaper | //x | Phrase, Noun | 
| heartbreaking | /xx | Noun, Adjective | 
| heaven | /x | Noun, Verb | 
| homicide | /xx | Noun | 
| horrors | /x | Noun | 
| hunger | /x | Noun, Verb | 
| hungry | /x | Adjective | 
| hunted | /x | Adjective | 
| imposition | xx/x | Noun | 
| jesus | /x | Name, Verb | 
| killer | /x | Noun, Adjective | 
| killings | /x | Adjective | 
| last | / | Adjective, Adverb, Verb, Noun | 
| lethality | x/xx | Noun | 
| life | / | Noun, Verb | 
| loss | / | Noun, Verb | 
| martyrdom | /xx | Noun | 
| martyred | /x | Verb | 
| misfortune | x/x | Noun | 
| momentous | x/x | Adjective | 
| mort | / | Noun | 
| mortal | /x | Adjective, Noun, Adverb | 
| murdering | /xx | Noun | 
| nativity | x/xx | Noun | 
| nightmarish | /xx | Adjective | 
| ordeals | x/ | Noun | 
| overthrow | /xx | Verb, Noun | 
| pain | / | Noun, Verb | 
| pangs | / | Verb | 
| parched | / | Adjective | 
| paroxysms | /x/x | Noun | 
| passing | /x | Noun, Adjective, Adverb | 
| penalty | /xx | Noun | 
| perplexing | x/x | Adjective | 
| pity | /x | Noun, Verb | 
| pivotal | /xx | Adjective | 
| postmortem | x/x | Adjective, Noun | 
| present | /x | Adjective, Verb, Noun | 
| problematic | xx/x | Adjective, Noun | 
| punishment | /xx | Noun | 
| ravages | /xx | Noun | 
| reaper | /x | Noun | 
| release | x/ | Noun, Verb | 
| rest | / | Noun, Verb | 
| retribution | xx/x | Noun | 
| sad | / | Adjective, Verb, Noun | 
| sanction | /x | Noun, Verb | 
| screams | / | Noun, Verb | 
| scrimmage | /x | Noun, Verb | 
| sentences | /xx | Verb | 
| shame | / | Noun, Verb, Adjective | 
| shipwreck | /x | Noun, Verb | 
| shot | / | Verb, Noun, Adjective | 
| shudder | /x | Noun, Verb | 
| sickness | /x | Noun | 
| slain | / | Noun | 
| slaughterhouse | /xx | Noun | 
| sleep | / | Noun, Verb | 
| sorrow | /x | Noun, Verb | 
| spasms | /x | Noun | 
| standstill | /x | Noun | 
| stirrings | /x | Noun | 
| stressful | /x | Adjective | 
| struggles | /x | Noun, Verb | 
| suicide | /xx | Noun, Verb | 
| survivor | x/x | Noun | 
| term | / | Noun, Adjective, Verb | 
| tod | / | Name, Verb | 
| toll | / | Noun, Verb | 
| tomb | / | Noun, Verb | 
| tragic | /x | Adjective, Noun | 
| travail | x/ | Noun, Verb | 
| trouble | /x | Noun, Verb | 
| tumult | /x | Noun, Verb | 
| tussle | /x | Noun, Verb | 
| undead | xx | Noun, Adjective | 
| undoing | x/x | Noun | 
| unsettling | x/xx | Adjective, Noun | 
| victims | /x | Noun | 
| warrant | /x | Noun, Verb | 
| wish | / | Verb, Noun | 
| worrisome | /xx | Adjective | 
| worth | / | Adjective, Noun, Verb | 
| wrenching | /x | Noun | 
