death
41 ENTRIES FOUND:
- death (noun)
- death–defying (adjective)
- death's–head (noun)
- death benefit (noun)
- death blow (noun)
- death camp (noun)
- death certificate (noun)
- death duty (noun)
- death grip (noun)
- death mask (noun)
- death penalty (noun)
- death rate (noun)
- death rattle (noun)
- death ray (noun)
- death row (noun)
- death sentence (noun)
- death squad (noun)
- death tax (noun)
- death throes (noun)
- death toll (noun)
- death trap (noun)
- death warrant (noun)
- death wish (noun)
- Death Valley (proper noun)
- black death (noun)
- brain death (noun)
- cot death (noun)
- crib death (noun)
- kiss of death (noun)
- life–and–death (adjective)
- life–or–death (adjective)
- near–death experience (noun)
- sudden death (noun)
- sudden infant death syndrome (noun)
- wrongful death (noun)
- door (noun)
- life (noun)
- matter (noun)
- misadventure (noun)
- put (verb)
- warm (verb)
plural
deaths
plural
deaths
Britannica Dictionary definition of DEATH
1
a
[noncount]
:
the end of life
:
the time when someone or something dies
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see also brain death, death knell at knell
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birth, life, and eventual death
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fear of death
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She is close to death. [=she will die soon]
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death threats
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The hostage managed to escape death. [=avoid being killed]
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The newspaper did not report the cause of death.
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She was convicted of murder and sentenced/condemned to death. [=told that she would be killed as punishment]
b
[count]
:
the ending of a particular person's life
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People around the world mourned his death.
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She worked at the newspaper until her death at (age) 74.
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The accident resulted in two deaths.
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The number of deaths from cancer is rising.
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He died a violent/tragic death.
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There has been a death in the family.
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She survived the plane crash and many years later died a natural death. [=from natural causes; because she was old]
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The general met his death on the battlefield.
2
[count]
:
the permanent end of something that is not alive
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the ruin or destruction of something
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the death of innocence
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the death of vaudeville
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the death of a marriage
3
Death
[noncount]
literary
:
the force that ends life and is often shown in art or literature as a skeleton
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Death could be seen lurking in the corner of the painting.
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when Death comes to take me away
a matter of life and death
at death's door
:
about to die
:
very sick and in danger of dying
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He is sick, but he's not at death's door.
be the death of
:
to cause (someone) to die
— often used figuratively
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I worry that his drug addiction will be the death of him.
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Those kids will be the death of me! [=they worry and upset me very much]
catch your death (of cold)
like death warmed over
(US) informal or British like death warmed up
:
very tired or sick
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We worked through the night, and by morning we looked like death warmed over.
put to death
◊ A person or animal that is put to death is killed at a scheduled time by someone who is legally allowed to do so.
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a serial killer who was put to death [=executed] for the murder of 28 people
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The dog that attacked the children was later put to death.
to death
1
— used to say how someone died or was killed
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He was shot/stabbed to death.
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They froze/starved to death.
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She drank herself to death. [=drank a lot of alcohol until it made her so sick that she died]
2
:
very much
:
to a great degree
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We were bored/scared to death. [=extremely bored/scared]
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That teacher works her students to death. [=she makes them work too hard]
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He's wonderful! I just love him to death!
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I'm sick to death of hearing about the scandal. [=I don't want to hear anything more about the scandal; I've heard too much about it]
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That song has been done to death. [=many musicians have performed that song]
to the death
1
:
until someone is dead
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The warriors would fight to the death.
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a battle to the death
2
:
with all of your energy and effort
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Some parents do not want the school to be closed, and say they'll fight to the death for it.
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see also black death, kiss of death, sudden death
