Die

Words related to dying.

• What general words refer to dying?
  die expire
• What words refer to dying as a result of illness or old age?
  pass away pass on go kick the bucket snuff it
• What words refer to dying as a result of an accident or violence?
  be killed accidental death death by misadventure violent death lose your life perish suffer heavy losses
• What euphemisms and idioms are used to refer to death?
  go to your reward be wasted fall asleep croak depart breathe your last defunct grim reaper
• What words are used to describe the manner in which someone dies?
  drop dead keel over slow death sudden death painful death excruciating death gruesome death horrible death die quietly die peacefully die with boots on die fighting fade away succumb (to illness) drown drowning asphyxiate suffocate choke to death sacrifice succumb (to a disease) suffocate suffocation starvation starve starve to death burn to death freeze to death
• What words refer to dying when you are still young?
  die young be cut off in your prime untimely death
• What words refer to dying to save someone?
  die for give your life lay down your life martyr
• What words describe someone who is almost dead?
  dying be close to death about to die on death's doorstep be at death's door have one foot in the grave
• What words refer to the event of dying?
  death demise mortality
• What words refer to someone who has died?
  deceased dead person goner dearly departed casualty fatality the dead
• What words describe someone who is dead?
  dead deceased stone-dead dead as a doornail late lifeless
• What words refer to the number of people who die from the same cause?
  death toll fatalities loss of life
• What words refer to losing someone in death?
  lose (someone) loss bereaved be widowed be orphaned
• What words describe an illness or wound that will cause the person to die?
  fatal terminal

• Kill
• Corpse
• Funeral
• Mourn
• Bury
• Grave
• Inherit
• Life after death