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death
/dɛθ/
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What does death mean?
noun
- The cessation of life and all associated processes; the end of an organism's existence as an entity independent from its environment and its return to an inert, non-living state.
- Execution (in the judicial sense).
- The personification of death as a (usually male) hooded figure with a scythe; the Grim Reaper.
More meanings (5)
noun
- The collapse or end of something.
- (figuratively) A cause of great stress, exhaustion, embarrassment, or another negative condition (for someone).
- (figuratively) Spiritual lifelessness.
proper noun
- The personification of death, often a skeleton with a scythe, and one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse.
- A surname.
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IPA pronunciation
/dɛθ/
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In coming to a fixed determination to run away, we did more than Patrick Henry, when he resolved upon liberty or death.
He had lost two children, boys, that came between Lou and Emil, and there had been the cost of sickness and death.
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Since Troy’s death Oak had attended all sales and fairs for her, transacting her business at the same time with his own.
E’en should he vary somewhat in his story, He cannot make the death of Laius In any wise jump with the oracle.
When the doctor came he said that death had been instantaneous and probably painless, caused in all likelihood by some sudden shock.