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deathlike

Variant of death

noun

  1. the act or fact of dying; permanent ending of all life in a person, animal, or plant
  2. the personification of death, usually pictured as a skeleton in a black robe, holding a scythe
  3. the state of being dead
  4. any ending resembling dying; total destruction: the death of our hopes
  5. any condition or experience thought of as like dying or being dead
  6. the cause of death: smoking will be the death of him
  7. murder or bloodshed
  8. Obsolete pestilence: the Black Death

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Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2010 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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