meaning of death
1. The cessation of all vital phenomena without capability of resuscitation, either in animals or plants.
2. Total privation or loss; extinction; cessation; as, the death of memory.
3. Manner of dying; act or state of passing from life.
4. Cause of loss of life.
5. Personified: The destroyer of life, -- conventionally represented as a skeleton with a scythe.
6. Danger of death.
7. Murder; murderous character.
8. Loss of spiritual life.
9. Anything so dreadful as to be like death.
10. the act of killing; "he had two deaths on his
">conscience"
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