Word Finder - death

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The cessation of life and all associated processes; the end of an organism's existence as an entity independent from its environment and its return to an inert, nonliving state.

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The death of my grandmother saddened the whole family.

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(often capitalized) The personification of death as a hooded figure with a scythe; the Grim Reaper. The pronoun he is not the only option, but probably the most traditional one, as it matches with the male grammatical gender of Old English dēaþ, also with cognate German der Tod. The fourth apocalyptic rider (Bible, revelations 6:8) is male θᾰ́νᾰτος (thanatos) in Greek. It has the female name Mors in Latin, but is referred to with male forms qui and eum. The following quotes show this rider on a pale horse is his in the English Bible and she in Peter Gabriel's lyrics.

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When death walked in, a chill spread through the room.

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(the death) The collapse or end of something.

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England scored a goal at the death to even the score at one all.

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Spiritual lifelessness.

I was scared to death I couldn't... get back!

Some things are meant to be, and death is natural for humans.

I was thinking even someone who doesn't fear death, fears something else.

Death is a part of the risk we take.

I do try not to mourn his death too sadly.

All will end in death, all!

Long ago, before her death, when he'd had a family.

Yet, he felt her death was not the answer.

I said, "No; because, if there were no death, our world would soon be so crowded with living creatures that it would be impossible for any of them to live comfortably."

Jake's death is not your fault.

Many a man is harassed to death to pay the rent of a larger and more luxurious box who would not have frozen to death in such a box as this.

His death wasn't a pleasant one.

Jule was beginning to think death was better than his weakened state.

After the death of Gracchus, a conservative government under Sulla withdrew the subsidy, but shortly afterward, in a period of great unrest, restored it, and two hundred thousand persons stood in line.

It was the last spiritual struggle between life and death, in which death gained the victory.

Nobody wanted this to happen, but don't let his death be a complete loss.

She didn't want to see more death.

Yes, death is an awakening!

A man's face, a woman in the hospital on her death bed, their children surrounding them.

Every vision she'd had, even when Jake touched her, had been of death.

She's in a stasis right now, caught between life and death.

He knew from experience the tormenting expectation of terror and death the cornet was suffering and knew that only time could help him.

I know how you like to scrutinize a thing to death.

I'm about to starve to death.

He hardly knows the woman and you heard what Martha said; she still holds a grudge over what she perceived as Howie's carelessness that caused her daughter's kidnapping and death.

She felt death within him, as she had with her cat Snickers after a car ran him over.

You hear his body speak of the death in him?

He reminded her of Jonny when her brother had learned of his father's death last summer.

The images in her mind were of a little boy dying in the street, of Jake's death, of the deaths of many others.

She stared at the embroidered tablecloth, tormented by the scent of food she couldn't eat and the visions of death and betrayal that left an acrid taste in her mouth.

She stirred from her trance at the voice, mind replaying scenes of Darian's death.

She grabbed Traci's hand, and she picked her way through the death until she found the vamp she sought.

The death visions, the distrust everyone on the planet had for a soul-reader, the inability to eat … they were nothing compared to helping a man find his soul again.

He was more and more appalled by the memories afflicting his brother, what he'd gone through since his supposed death.

He stood at ease before her, unconcerned with teaching her to kill then exposing himself to death at her hands.

No one will challenge Death to kill her.

Her instincts were at full alarm, but she didn't understand what she had to fear from Gabriel's death dealers.

The death dealer looked at her.

If you drink any more of that stuff, you'll pass out and maybe bleed to death inside.

The death dealer stared at him.

The death dealer disappeared.

Be it life or death, we crave only reality.

I must be boring you to death.

We'll freeze to death.

Time to be with his mother, and time to get over his father's death.

So that was why Cade felt responsible for his mothers' death.

I feel badly for him and he's such a sweet guy; I love him to death!

It's like we're responsible for her death.

And he smiled, a cold smile that did not reach the death in his eyes.

Her first thought was that he was sending her to Death as a means of torturing her or at least, nailing home the point that he had won this round with Gabriel.