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    [Noun]  | "death" | \ ˈdeth \


    1: a permanent cessation of all vital functions : the end of life

    2: an instance of dying

    3: the cause or occasion of loss of life

    Origin: before 12th century ;

     Middle English deeth, from Old English dēath; akin to Old Norse dauthi death, deyja to die ;

    [Noun]  | "death benefit" 


    1: money payable to the beneficiary of a deceased

    Origin: 1867 ;

    [Noun]  | "death blow" 


    1: a forcible stroke that kills a living thing : an act that ends the life of a person or animal

    2: an act or event that causes the end or failure of something

    Origin: circa 1586 ;

    [Noun]  | "death camas" 


    1: any of several plants (genus Zigadenus) of the lily family that cause poisoning of livestock in the western U.S.

    Origin: 1856 ;

    [Noun]  | "death camp" 


    1: a concentration camp in which large numbers of prisoners are systematically killed

    Origin: 1944 ;

    [Noun]  | "death cap" 


    1: a very poisonous mushroom (Amanita phalloides) of deciduous woods of North America and Europe that varies in color from pure white to olive or yellow and has a prominent volva at the base —called also death cup

    Origin: 1925 ;

    [Noun]  | "death duty" 


    1: death tax

    Origin: 1852 ;

    [Noun]  | "death grip" 


    1: an extremely tight grip caused especially by fear

    2: hold

    Origin: 1792 ;

    [Noun]  | "death instinct" 


    1: an innate and unconscious tendency toward self-destruction postulated in psychoanalytic theory to explain aggressive and destructive behavior not satisfactorily explained by the pleasure principle —called also Thanatos

    Origin: 1921 ;

    [Noun]  | "death mask" 


    1: a cast taken from the face of a dead person

    Origin: 1838 ;

    [Noun]  | "death" 


    1: the permanent stopping of all the vital bodily activities;


      * e.g., " ... we were all saddened by the death of our friend "




    2: the state of being dead;


      * e.g., " ... death is one of the few constants in the universe "




    3: the act of ceasing to exist;


      * e.g., " ... the death of the Soviet economic system in the wake of the breakup of the USSR "




    [Noun]  | "death's-head" 


    1: as in head, skull;


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    [Noun]  | "death's-heads" 


    1: as in heads, skulls;


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    [Noun]  | "death tax" 


    [Noun]  | "death taxes" 


    [Noun]  | "death grip" 


    1: the right or means to command or control others;


      * e.g., " ... the cult leader had such a death grip on his followers that all orders were carried out without the slightest objection "




    [Noun]  | "death grips" 


    1: the right or means to command or control others;


      * e.g., " ... the cult leader had such a death grip on his followers that all orders were carried out without the slightest objection "




    [Noun]  | "sudden death" 


    [Adjective]  | "life-and-death" 


    [Phrase]  | "at death's door" 


    1: nearly dead;


      * e.g., " ... They found him at death's door, but he has since recovered. "



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     [ "death" ]

    1: an excuse to get out of work

      * e.g.,  ... death 

     [ "death" ]

    1: the cure for life

     [ "death" ]

    1:  A horrible disease that's almost as bad a pregnancy. Symptoms include not living anymore, your body decaying, all of your money and possessions being given to relatives you may or may not know, and your body being put underground forever or being set on fire.

      * e.g.,  ...  Joe got hit by a bus and caught death. 

     [ "death" ]

    2:  Like sleep, only more permanent.

      * e.g.,  ...  Mom: O, Jimmy, grandma isn;t sleeping, she's dead! 

     [ "death" ]

    3:  Sleep's cousin.

      * e.g.,  ...  Jimmy: Nooooooo! 

     [ "death" ]

    1: noun;

      * e.g.,  ... She can't wait for death to release her from this painful and utterly pointless life. 

     [ "death" ]

    2: the sweet release from this painful and utterly pointless life

     [ "death" ]

    1: The only guaranteed part of life.

      * e.g.,  ... Death is just a part of life. 

     [ "death" ]

    1: the frist class ticket out of reality.

      * e.g.,  ... your only freedom after marrige 

     [ "death" ]

    1: some call it the end, some call it the beginning.

      * e.g.,  ... Death Death Death Death Death Death Death Death 

     [ "death" ]

    2:  I call it the time of my life when I am settled firmly in the ground, rotting and beginning to smell and occupying space that will inevitibly violated by desperate citizens of the future world who, fearful of the diminishing land mass of their landfills, unearth my shrunken corpse of bones and worms and hastily send me to a creamatorium. There, and only there will I be able to reak havoc on those retched, materialistic bastards by unleashing my virulent, miniscule dust cells into their children's sleeping nasal cavities.

     [ "death" ]

    3:  Or, you could call it the end of life.

     [ "death" ]

    1: The end of all. The opposite of life.

      * e.g.,  ... *knock knock* 

     [ "death" ]

    1: The sole good thing to come out of life. Without it there is no point of living, we all live for one purpose, to die.

      * e.g.,  ... My life has finally amounted to something. My death. 

     [ "death" ]

    1:  The act of dying; termination of life.

      * e.g.,  ... The end of life; the permanent cessation of vital bodily functions, as manifested in humans by the loss of heartbeat, the absence of spontaneous breathing, and brain death. 

     [ "death" ]

    2:  The state of being dead.

     [ "death" ]

    3:  The cause of dying: Drugs were the death of him.

     [ "death" ]

    4:  A manner of dying: a heroine's death.

     [ "death" ]

    5:  often Death A personification of the destroyer of life, usually represented as a skeleton holding a scythe.

     [ "death" ]

    6:  a. Bloodshed; murder.

     [ "death" ]

    7:  b. Execution.

     [ "death" ]

    8:  Law. Civil death.

     [ "death" ]

    9:  The termination or extinction of something: the death of imperialism.

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