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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Posthumous :: Posthumous (a.) Born after the death of the father, or taken from the dead body of the mother; as, a posthumous son or daughter..
Perishable :: Perishable (a.) Liable to perish; subject to decay, destruction, or death; as, perishable goods; our perishable bodies..
Immature :: Immature (a.) Premature; untimely; too early; as, an immature death..
Night :: Night (n.) The period after the close of life; death.
Mortal :: Mortal (a.) Affecting as if with power to kill; deathly.
Reprieve :: Reprieve (n.) A temporary suspension of the execution of a sentence, especially of a sentence of death..
Deliver :: Deliver (v. t.) To set free from restraint; to set at liberty; to release; to liberate, as from control; to give up; to free; to save; to rescue from evil actual or feared; -- often with from or out of; as, to deliver one from captivity, or from fear of death..
Casualty :: Casualty (n.) Numerical loss caused by death, wounds, discharge, or desertion..
Mortal :: Mortal (a.) Of or pertaining to the time of death.
Prepare :: Prepare (v. i.) To make one's self ready; to get ready; to take the necessary previous measures; as, to prepare for death..
Obsequy :: Obsequy (n.) The last duty or service to a person, rendered after his death; hence, a rite or ceremony pertaining to burial; -- now used only in the plural..
Assurance :: Assurance (n.) Insurance; a contract for the payment of a sum on occasion of a certain event, as loss or death..
Post-mortem :: Post-mortem (a.) After death; as, post-mortem rigidity..
Dyingly :: Dyingly (adv.) In a dying manner; as if at the point of death.
Doom :: Doom (v. t.) Ruin; death.
Death's-head :: Death's-head (n.) A naked human skull as the emblem of death; the head of the conventional personification of death.
Fatal :: Fatal (a.) Foreboding death or great disaster.
Mortal :: Mortal (a.) Destructive to life; causing or occasioning death; terminating life; exposing to or deserving death; deadly; as, a mortal wound; a mortal sin..
Cosinage :: Cosinage (n.) A writ to recover possession of an estate in lands, when a stranger has entered, after the death of the grandfather's grandfather, or other distant collateral relation..
Stroke :: Stroke (v. t.) A sudden attack of disease; especially, a fatal attack; a severe disaster; any affliction or calamity, especially a sudden one; as, a stroke of apoplexy; the stroke of death..
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