death
IPA: dˈɛθ
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, nonliving state.
- Execution (in the judicial sense).
- (often capitalized) The personification of death as a (usually male) hooded figure with a scythe; the Grim Reaper.
- (preceded by the) The collapse or end of something.
- (figuratively, especially followed by of-phrase) A cause of great stress, exhaustion, embarrassment, or another negative condition (for someone).
- (figurative) Spiritual lifelessness.
- The personification of death, often a skeleton with a scythe, and one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse.
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Examples of "death" in Sentences
- The ending shows the destruction of the Death Star.
- The ambush ended with the death of all the contractors.
- The final warning is a premonition of the signalman's own death.
- Mahon's death presaged the end of the clan's power on the island.
- We must live and cope with it as we do with the finality of death.
- Abhimanyu's death marked the end of adherence to the rules of war.
- It is the last release with Renske doing death growls for the band.
- Finally, they came within earshot of the death squads and the hostages.
- The estates were reunified on the death of the last of the Vernons in 1476.
- The castle fall into disrepair after the death of the last Castelnau in 1715.
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