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.
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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.
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idiom
at death's door
  • Near to death; gravely ill or injured.
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be the death of
  • To distress or irritate to an intolerable degree.
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death on
  • Opposed to or strict about:

    Our boss is death on casual dressing.

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put to death
  • To execute.
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to death
  • To an intolerable degree; extremely:

    worried to death.

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Other Word Forms of Death

Noun

Singular:
death
Plural:
deaths

Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Death

Origin of Death

  • 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

  • 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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