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.
- Now, sir, he offers us nothing but unconditional submission to political death; and not political alone, but absolute _death_.
- So in the next verse -- "If he continues a day or two," his death shall not be avenged by the _death_ of the _master_, for in that case the crime was to be adjudged
- So in the next verse, "If he continue a day or two," his death is not to be avenged by the _death_ of the _master_, as in that case the crime was to be adjudged _manslaughter_, and not
- He felt that he was dying -- "The taste of death," he said to his sister-in-law, "is already on my tongue -- _I taste death_; and who will be near to support my Constance if you go away?"
- So in the next verse, "If he continue a day or two," his death is not to be avenged by the _death_ of the _master_, as in that case the crime was to be adjudged _manslaughter_, and not _murder_.
- All the distresses growing out of inequalities in human condition; as wealth and power on one side, and poverty and weakness on the other, were terminated by death; the grave brought both to a level: the small and the great are there, and there, (that is, in the grave,) he adds, the servant is free from his master; made so, evidently, by _death_.
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