Synonyms of deaths

deaths

noun

plural of death

1

as in demises

the permanent stopping of all the vital bodily activities

we were all saddened by the death of our friend

Synonyms & Similar Words

• demises
• fates
• passings
• dooms
• graves
• dissolutions
• suicides
• fatalities
• deceases
• curtains
• exits
• expirations
• sleeps
• assassinations
• passages
• casualties
• ends
• destructions
• great divides
• martyrdoms
• quietuses
• endings
• expiries
• executions
• killings
• massacres
• ruins
• exterminations
• annihilations
• slaughters
• self-murders
• self-slaughters
• self-destructions

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• births
• lives
• existences
• nativities
• creations
• originations
• rises
• geneses

2

as in terminations

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

• demises
• terminations
• dissolutions
• cessations
• destructions
• expirations
• dispersions
• endings
• suicides
• passings
• shutdowns
• expiries
• stoppages
• conclusions
• discontinuances
• ends
• lapses
• ruins
• shutoffs
• finishes
• deceases
• dooms
• annihilations
• stops
• halts
• closes
• surceases
• quietuses

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• births
• beginnings
• starts
• commencements
• onsets
• creations
• launches
• geneses
• mornings
• dawns
• inceptions
• alphas
• existences
• prolongations
• incipiencies
• outsets
• incipiences
• institutions
• initiations
• persistences
• originations
• inaugurations

3

as in downfalls

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

• downfalls
• destructions
• ruins
• kisses of death
• curses
• undoings
• ruinations
• banes
• torments
• tragic flaws
• Achilles' heels

4

as in massacres

the killing of a large number of people

thousands of soldiers were lost on the field of death

Synonyms & Similar Words

• massacres
• slaughters
• genocides
• bloodbaths
• carnages
• murders
• butcheries
• killings
• slayings
• holocausts
• mortalities
• manslaughters
• homicides
• exterminations
• assassinations
• executions
• devastations
• annihilations
• pogroms
• bloodlettings
• bloodsheds
• destructions
• foul play
• decimations
• eradications

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of deaths

The ban came after a series of high-profile scooter deaths and an alarming number of devices strewn willy-nilly in neighborhoods across the city. — Shaddi Abusaid, AJC.com, 27 July 2026

Colt Gray, now 16, pleaded guilty Friday to 55 charges, including four counts of murder for the deaths of teachers Richard Aspinwall and Cristina Irimie, and students Mason Schermerhorn and Christian Angulo, and the wounding of nine others. — Alaa Elassar, CNN Money, 27 July 2026

The attack was unsuccessful, as Gwayne jumped to his nephew’s rescue in time, which only resulted in a couple of deaths and Ormund projectile vomiting at the smell. — Jennifer Maas, Variety, 27 July 2026

As Ebola cases in eastern Congo near 3,000 with more than 1,300 deaths, unpaid health workers strike at a key treatment center, halting care in the outbreak’s epicenter. — Prosper Heri Ngorora, Los Angeles Times, 26 July 2026

Apart from individual deaths, this also negatively impacts already vulnerable populations, especially for species with already slow reproduction rates. — Indrabati Lahiri, Forbes.com, 26 July 2026

Four of the 2026 cases have required hospitalization, and there have been no deaths. — Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 26 July 2026

The Palestinian Health Ministry said Israeli soldiers shot and killed four Palestinians in Tell, while the military reported the deaths of two soldiers, one of them a settler in a local defense squad. — ABC News, 25 July 2026

The dead were not identified, and Central Command wouldn't offer any further details on the deaths. — Arkansas Online, 19 July 2026