Death Definition
dĕth
deaths
noun
deaths
The act or fact of dying; permanent ending of all life in a person, animal, or plant.
Webster's New World
The state of being dead.
Webster's New World
The personification of death, usually pictured as a skeleton in a black robe, holding a scythe.
Webster's New World
Any ending resembling dying; total destruction.
The death of our hopes.
Webster's New World
The cause of death.
Smoking will be the death of him.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
pronoun
The personification of death, often a skeleton with a scythe, and one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse.
Death can be seen on a tarot card.
Wiktionary
idiom
at death's door
- Near to death; gravely ill or injured.
American Heritage
be the death of
- To distress or irritate to an intolerable degree.
American Heritage
death on
- Opposed to or strict about:
Our boss is death on casual dressing.
American Heritage
put to death
- To execute.
American Heritage
to death
- To an intolerable degree; extremely:
worried to death.
American Heritage
Other Word Forms of Death
Noun
Singular:
deathPlural:
deathsIdioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Death
- at death's door
- be the death of
- death on
- put to death
- to death
- to the death
- at death's door
- be death on
- do to death
- in at the death
- put to death
- to death
- to the death
Origin of Death
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From Middle English deeth, from Old English dēaþ, from Proto-Germanic *dauþuz (compare West Frisian dead, Dutch dood, German Tod, Swedish död), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰówtus. More at die.
From Wiktionary
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Middle English deeth from Old English dēath dheu-2 in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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