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 deaths bring the homicide total in Richmond this year to nine . — Rick Hurd, Mercury News, 23 Aug. 2026

Fentanyl is a highly addictive synthetic opioid and the main driver of overdose deaths in the United States. — Ariana Figueroa, Baltimore Sun, 23 Aug. 2026

Their deaths were avoidable, just as the strategy that put them in harm’s way was and remains reversible. — Alexander Langlois, The Orlando Sentinel, 23 Aug. 2026

Anna Paquin, Christy Carlson Romano and Melissa Gilbert are calling on Hollywood to protect child actors following the deaths of Hayden Panettiere, Michelle Trachtenberg and Daveigh Chase. — Carly Thomas, HollywoodReporter, 23 Aug. 2026

Entertainment industry deaths Internet would-be sleuths have popped up in Zach’s Hickerson’s comments on social media this week. — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 23 Aug. 2026

Two deaths linked to the hurricane have been reported in Hawaii. — ABC News, 23 Aug. 2026

That never was proved, although it was confirmed at the trial that Hyde had bought cyanide pills in the weeks before the three deaths in the house on Pleasant Street. — Dan Kelly august 22, Kansas City Star, 22 Aug. 2026

The latest government data shows that the total number of deaths has surpassed the 2,299 deaths recorded in the 2018-2020 outbreak, which was previously the country’s worst on record. — CNN Money, 17 Aug. 2026