Definition of death

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Death (v. i.) Personified: The destroyer of life, -- conventionally represented as a skeleton with a scythe..

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Execute :: Execute (v. t.) To infect capital punishment on; to put to death in conformity to a legal sentence; as, to execute a traitor..
Mort :: Mort (n.) A note or series of notes sounded on a horn at the death of game.
Fatally :: Fatally (adv.) In a manner issuing in death or ruin; mortally; destructively; as, fatally deceived or wounded..
Strangle :: Strangle (v. t.) To compress the windpipe of (a person or animal) until death results from stoppage of respiration; to choke to death by compressing the throat, as with the hand or a rope..
Mortuary :: Mortuary (a.) A sort of ecclesiastical heriot, a customary gift claimed by, and due to, the minister of a parish on the death of a parishioner. It seems to have been originally a voluntary bequest or donation, intended to make amends for any failure in the payment of tithes of which the deceased had been guilty..
Martyr :: Martyr (n.) One who, by his death, bears witness to the truth of the gospel; one who is put to death for his religion; as, Stephen was the first Christian martyr..
Passage :: Passage (v. i.) Removal from life; decease; departure; death.
Myriologue :: Myriologue (n.) An extemporaneous funeral song, composed and sung by a woman on the death of a friend..
Deadly :: Deadly (adv.) In a manner resembling, or as if produced by, death..
Deathblow :: Deathblow (n.) A mortal or crushing blow; a stroke or event which kills or destroys.
Heaven :: Heaven (n.) The dwelling place of the Deity; the abode of bliss; the place or state of the blessed after death.
Thanatopsis :: Thanatopsis (n.) A view of death; a meditation on the subject of death.
Eschatology :: Eschatology (n.) The doctrine of the last or final things, as death, judgment, and the events therewith connected..
Eternity :: Eternity (n.) Condition which begins at death; immortality.
Depopulate :: Depopulate (v. t.) To deprive of inhabitants, whether by death or by expulsion; to reduce greatly the populousness of; to dispeople; to unpeople..
Ascribe :: Ascribe (v. t.) To attribute, impute, or refer, as to a cause; as, his death was ascribed to a poison; to ascribe an effect to the right cause; to ascribe such a book to such an author..
Ambulatory :: Ambulatory (a.) Not yet fixed legally, or settled past alteration; alterable; as, the dispositions of a will are ambulatory until the death of the testator..
Deadly :: Deadly (a.) Subject to death; mortal.
Mortal :: Mortal (a.) Subject to death; destined to die; as, man is mortal..
Alamort :: Alamort (a.) To the death; mortally.
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