Synonyms of death

death

noun

ˈdeth 

1

as in demise

the permanent stopping of all the vital bodily activities

we were all saddened by the death of our friend

Synonyms & Similar Words

• demise
• fate
• passing
• doom
• dissolution
• decease
• grave
• suicide
• expiration
• end
• sleep
• exit
• assassination
• passage
• destruction
• curtains
• fatality
• expiry
• quietus
• martyrdom
• great divide
• casualty
• ending
• execution
• annihilation
• killing
• slaughter
• extermination
• massacre
• self-murder
• self-destruction
• self-slaughter
• ruin

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• birth
• life
• existence
• nativity
• creation
• rise
• genesis
• origination

2

as in mortality

the state of being dead

death is one of the few constants in the universe

Synonyms & Similar Words

• mortality
• dead
• deadness
• grave
• sleep
• nothingness
• lifelessness

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• life
• existence
• immortality
• lifetime
• lifespan

3

as in dissolution

the act of ceasing to exist

the death of the Soviet economic system in the wake of the breakup of the USSR

Synonyms & Similar Words

• demise
• dissolution
• termination
• destruction
• expiration
• cessation
• dispersion
• ending
• expiry
• suicide
• passing
• end
• decease
• doom
• conclusion
• close
• discontinuance
• shutdown
• stoppage
• annihilation
• lapse
• halt
• finish
• stop
• ruin
• surcease
• shutoff
• quietus

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• birth
• beginning
• creation
• morning
• onset
• start
• commencement
• existence
• dawn
• inception
• outset
• genesis
• launch
• alpha
• prolongation
• persistence
• incipiency
• incipience
• initiation
• institution
• inauguration
• origination

4

as in downfall

something that is the cause of one's ultimate failure or loss of life

that muscle car will be the death of him yet

Synonyms & Similar Words

• downfall
• destruction
• kiss of death
• undoing
• curse
• ruination
• ruin
• torment
• bane
• tragic flaw
• Achilles' heel

5

as in massacre

the killing of a large number of people

thousands of soldiers were lost on the field of death

Synonyms & Similar Words

• massacre
• slaughter
• carnage
• genocide
• murder
• mortality
• butchery
• bloodbath
• holocaust
• slaying
• killing
• bloodshed
• manslaughter
• extermination
• destruction
• annihilation
• devastation
• execution
• homicide
• assassination
• decimation
• bloodletting
• eradication
• pogrom
• foul play
• demolishing

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of death

The deaths prompted the Legislature in 1999 to chip away at legal protections for parents whose children died without medical care. — Noelle Crombie, ProPublica, 11 Nov. 2026

Meanwhile, America’s post-9/11 wars have caused the deaths and displacement of millions more, as well as the further indebtedness of American taxpayers. — The Editorial Board, Oc Register, 11 Nov. 2026

With no doctors on board to offer guidance, Doll and the other flight nurses had to make all the crucial life and death decisions themselves. — Leah Garrett, New York Daily News, 11 Nov. 2026

An outbreak of the H5 influenza virus has spread rapidly throughout the Yakima Valley, infecting over 30 dairy herds and causing the death of at least one person. — Tom Sanders, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Nov. 2026

Phrases Containing death

• death grip
• kiss of death
• to death