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| Sounds | deh'th |
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| Rhymes | beth, breath, daleth, and 8 more rhymes in ehth at the HyperDic website... |
| Meaning | The event of dying or departure from life. |
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| Examples | "her death came as a terrible shock" |
| Synonyms | decease |
| Narrower | Crucifixion; fatality, human death; martyrdom; megadeath; passing, loss, departure, exit, expiration, going, release; wrongful death |
| Broader | change, alteration, modification |
| Contrary | birth, nativity, nascency, nascence |
| Verbs | die; die |
| Meaning | The permanent end of all life functions in an organism or part of an organism. |
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| Examples | "the animal died a painful death" |
| Narrower | necrobiosis, cell death; necrosis, mortification, gangrene, sphacelus; brain death, cerebral death |
| Broader | organic phenomenon |
| Adjectives | mortuary |
| Verbs | die; die |
| Meaning | The time at which life ends. Continuing until dead. |
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| Examples | "she stayed until his death" |
| Synonyms | last |
| Broader | end, ending |
| Verbs | die; die |
| Meaning | The personification of death. |
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| Examples | "Death walked the streets of the plague-bound city" |
| Narrower | Grim Reaper, Reaper |
| Broader | imaginary being, imaginary creature |
| Verbs | die; die |
| Meaning | The absence of life or state of being dead. |
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| Examples | "he seemed more content in death than he had ever been in life" |
| Narrower | rest, eternal rest, sleep, eternal sleep, quietus; extinction, defunctness; neonatal death; sudden infant death syndrome, SIDS, infant death, crib death, cot death |
| Broader | state |
| Verbs | die; die |
| Meaning | The time when something ends. |
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| Examples | "it was the death of all his plans" |
| Synonyms | dying, demise |
| Part of | life, lifetime, lifespan |
| Narrower | grave |
| Broader | end, ending |
| Contrary | birth |
| Verbs | die |
| Meaning | The act of killing. |
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| Examples | "he had two deaths on his conscience" |
| Broader | killing, kill, putting to death |
| Verbs | die; die |
| Meaning | A final state. |
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| Synonyms | end, destruction |
| Broader | state |
| Verbs | die |