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the personification of death; "Death walked the streets of the plague-bound city"

the permanent end of all life functions in an organism or part of an organism; "the animal died a painful death"

the absence of life or state of being dead; "he seemed more content in death than he had ever been in life"

the personification of death; "Death walked the streets of the plague-bound city"

the permanent end of all life functions in an organism or part of an organism; "the animal died a painful death"

the absence of life or state of being dead; "he seemed more content in death than he had ever been in life"

The cessation of all vital phenomena without capability of resuscitation, either in animals or plants.

Total privation or loss; extinction; cessation; as, the death of memory.

Manner of dying; act or state of passing from life.

Cause of loss of life.

Danger of death.

Murder; murderous character.

Loss of spiritual life.

Anything so dreadful as to be like death.

Personified: The destroyer of life, - conventionally represented as a skeleton with a scythe.

The cessation of all vital phenomena without capability of resuscitation, either in animals or plants.

Total privation or loss; extinction; cessation; as, the death of memory.

Manner of dying; act or state of passing from life.

Cause of loss of life.

Danger of death.

Murder; murderous character.

Loss of spiritual life.

Anything so dreadful as to be like death.

Personified: The destroyer of life, - conventionally represented as a skeleton with a scythe.

Irreversible cessation of all bodily functions, manifested by absence of spontaneous breathing and total loss of cardiovascular and cerebral functions.

Cessation of life or feeling; the state of having ceased to live; total loss; decay; something as terrible as death; slaughter; bloodshed.

Extinction or destruction of life.

State of being dead: extinction of life: manner of dying: mortality.

Extinction of life.

Cessation of life; extinction; destruction.

The complete and permanent cessation of all vital functions in any organism.

(Sax.) (Sc.) Dede, Deid; Apobiosis, Abiosis, Extinctio, Obitus, Psychoragia, Psychorrhagia, Lethum, Letum, Mors, Interitus, Thanatos, Decease, (F.) Mort. Definitive cessation of all the functions, the aggregate of which constitute life. Real Beath, Apothanasia, is distinguished from asphyxia or apparent death- the latter being merely a suspension of those same functions. But it is often difficult to judge of such suspension, and the only certain sign of real death is the commencement of putrefaction. At times, therefore, great caution is requisite to avoid mistakes. Death is commonly preceded by some distressing symptoms, which depend on lesion of respiration, circulation, or of the cerebral functions, and which constitute the agony. That which occurs suddenly, and without any, or with few, precursory signs, is called sudden death. It is ordinarily caused by disease of the heart, apoplexy, the rupture of an aneurism, or by some other organic affection. Death is natural, (Sc.) Strae-death, when it occurs as the result of disease: violent, when produced by some forcible agency. It may likewise affect the whole body, or a part only hence the difference between somatic and molecular death.

Cessation of life.

The cessation of life, also the state of being dead.

n. [Anglo-Saxon] Cessation or extinction of bodily life; decease; demise; departure; dissolution;—mode or manner of dying;—cause, agent, or instrument of loss of life;—the state of the dead;—the emblem or image of mortality;—alienation from God;—separation from the favour and fellowship of God.

The extinction of life; mortality; the state of the dead; the manner of dying; the image of mortality represented by a skeleton; in theology, damnation, eternal torments.