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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Death \Death\ (d[e^]th), noun [OE. deth, dea[eth], AS. de['a][eth]; akin to OS. d[=o][eth], D. dood, G. tod, Icel. dau[eth]i, Sw. & Dan. d["o]d, Goth. dau[thorn]us; from a verb meaning to die. See {Die}, verb (used without an object), and cf. {Dead}.]
1. The cessation of all vital phenomena without capability of resuscitation, either in animals or plants.
Note: Local death is going on at all times and in all parts of the living body, in which individual cells and elements are being cast off and replaced by new; a process essential to life. General death is of two kinds; death of the body as a whole (somatic or systemic death), and death of the tissues. By the former is implied the absolute cessation of the functions of the brain, the circulatory and the respiratory organs; by the latter the entire disappearance of the vital actions of the ultimate structural constituents of the body. When death takes place, the body as a whole dies first, the death of the tissues sometimes not occurring until after a considerable interval. --Huxley.
2. Total privation or loss; extinction; cessation; as, the death of memory.
The death of a language can not be exactly compared with the death of a plant. --J. Peile.
3. Manner of dying; act or state of passing from life.
Let me die the death of the righteous. --Num. xxiii. 10.
Swiftly flies the feathered death. --Dryden.
He caught his death the last county sessions. --Addison.
5. Personified: The destroyer of life, -- conventionally represented as a skeleton with a scythe.
Death! great proprietor of all. --Young.
And I looked, and behold a pale horse; and his name that sat on him was Death. --Rev. vi. 8.
6. Danger of death. "In deaths oft." --2 Cor. xi. 23.
7. Murder; murderous character.
Not to suffer a man of death to live. --Bacon.
8. (Theol.) Loss of spiritual life.
To be carnally minded is death. --Rom. viii. 6.
9. Anything so dreadful as to be like death.
It was death to them to think of entertaining such doctrines. --Atterbury.
And urged him, so that his soul was vexed unto death. --Judg. xvi. 16.
Note: Death is much used adjectively and as the first part of a compound, meaning, in general, of or pertaining to death, causing or presaging death; as, deathbed or death bed; deathblow or death blow, etc.
{Black death}. See {Black death}, in the Vocabulary.
{Civil death}, the separation of a man from civil society, or the debarring him from the enjoyment of civil rights, as by banishment, attainder, abjuration of the realm, entering a monastery, etc. --Blackstone.
{Death adder}. (Zool.) (a) A kind of viper found in South Africa ({Acanthophis tortor}); -- so called from the virulence of its venom. (b) A venomous Australian snake of the family {Elapid[ae]}, of several species, as the {Hoplocephalus superbus} and {Acanthopis antarctica}.
{Death bell}, a bell that announces a death.
The death bell thrice was heard to ring. --Mickle.
{Death candle}, a light like that of a candle, viewed by the superstitious as presaging death.
{Death damp}, a cold sweat at the coming on of death.
{Death fire}, a kind of ignis fatuus supposed to forebode death.
And round about in reel and rout, The death fires danced at night. --Coleridge.
{Death grapple}, a grapple or struggle for life.
{Death in life}, a condition but little removed from death; a living death. [Poetic] "Lay lingering out a five years' death in life." --Tennyson.
{Death rate}, the relation or ratio of the number of deaths to the population.
At all ages the death rate is higher in towns than in rural districts. --Darwin.
{Death rattle}, a rattling or gurgling in the throat of a dying person.
{Death's door}, the boundary of life; the partition dividing life from death.
{Death stroke}, a stroke causing death.
{Death throe}, the spasm of death.
{Death token}, the signal of approaching death.
{Death warrant}. (a) (Law) An order from the proper authority for the execution of a criminal. (b) That which puts an end to expectation, hope, or joy.
{Death wound}. (a) A fatal wound or injury. (b) (Naut.) The springing of a fatal leak.
{Spiritual death} (Scripture), the corruption and perversion of the soul by sin, with the loss of the favor of God.
{The gates of death}, the grave.
Have the gates of death been opened unto thee? --Job xxxviii. 17.
{The second death}, condemnation to eternal separation from God. --Rev. ii. 11.
{To be the death of}, to be the cause of death to; to make die. "It was one who should be the death of both his parents." --Milton.
Syn: {Death}, {Decease}, {Demise}, {Departure}, {Release}.
Usage: Death applies to the termination of every form of existence, both animal and vegetable; the other words only to the human race. Decease is the term used in law for the removal of a human being out of life in the ordinary course of nature. Demise was formerly confined to decease of princes, but is now sometimes used of distinguished men in general; as, the demise of Mr. Pitt. Departure and release are peculiarly terms of Christian affection and hope. A violent death is not usually called a decease. Departure implies a friendly taking leave of life. Release implies a deliverance from a life of suffering or sorrow.
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
noun
1: the event of dying or departure from life; "her death came as a terrible shock"; "upon your decease the capital will pass to your grandchildren" [syn: {death}, {decease}, {expiry}] [ant: {birth}, {nascence}, {nascency}, {nativity}]
2: the permanent end of all life functions in an organism or part of an organism; "the animal died a painful death"
3: the absence of life or state of being dead; "he seemed more content in death than he had ever been in life"
4: the time when something ends; "it was the death of all his plans"; "a dying of old hopes" [syn: {death}, {dying}, {demise}] [ant: {birth}]
5: the time at which life ends; continuing until dead; "she stayed until his death"; "a struggle to the last" [syn: {death}, {last}]
6: the personification of death; "Death walked the streets of the plague-bound city"
7: a final state; "he came to a bad end"; "the so-called glorious experiment came to an inglorious end" [syn: {end}, {destruction}, {death}]
8: the act of killing; "he had two deaths on his conscience"
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