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Learners of English as a second language usually know the word death once they have reached the level A1 – Beginner. English words by learner level A1 A2 B1 B2 C1 C2

Meaning death meaning

What does death mean?

Definitions in simple English

death Noun

— The end of life and existence. Death and destruction are a part of war. The Bible teaches that death and suffering came into the world because of Adam's sin.

— The state of being dead. She looked happy, even in death.

— The end of one's life and existence. The death of my wife was hard to accept. She has seen many deaths. My uncle's death made the whole family feel sad.

death

— noun (= decease) the event of dying or departure from life her death came as a terrible shock upon your decease the capital will pass to your grandchildren

— noun the permanent end of all life functions in an organism or part of an organism the animal died a painful death

— noun the absence of life or state of being dead he seemed more content in death than he had ever been in life

— noun (= dying) the time when something ends it was the death of all his plans a dying of old hopes

— noun (= last) the time at which life ends; continuing until dead she stayed until his death a struggle to the last

— noun (= end) a final state he came to a bad end the so-called glorious experiment came to an inglorious end

— noun the act of killing he had two deaths on his conscience

Death

— noun the personification of death Death walked the streets of the plague-bound city

Synonyms death synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as death?

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god of Death

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dying

decease

demise

end

end of life

destruction

doom

extinction

die

accident

ruin

expiry

expiration

passing away

passing

fatality

ending

disaster

dead

mortality

last

grave

fate

fall

destroyed

unhappiness

the last journey

sorrow

skeleton

sickness

next world

mortal

misfortune

killing

kill

finish

finis

exit

eternal sleep

deadly

casualty

case of death

wreck

worry

windup

volition

very much

upshot

traffic

thought

Topics death topics

What do people use death to talk about?

Person Life

Die

• 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 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 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 the number of people who die from the same cause?
  death toll fatalities loss of life

Person Life Die

Kill

• What words describe the manner of killing someone?
  shoot gun down blow someone away stab stab someone to death butcher behead decapitate beat someone to death asphyxiate choke garrote strangle suffocate throttle smother stifle crucify drown electrocute hang hanging poison stone starve
• What words refer to the government killing someone because they committed a crime?
  execute put someone to death sentence someone to death capital punishment the death penalty capital offence capital crime punishable by death execution condemned be on death row
• What words refer to something such as an accident or disease killing someone?
  kill kill off cause death be a killer destroy decimate wipe out

Social behavior Prosperity, trouble

Trouble

• What causes trouble?
  war famine disaster accident sickness injury death conflict harm destruction oppression

Person Life Die

Funeral

• What words refer to notifying people that someone has died?
  death notice send death notice

Person Life Die

Life after death

• What words refer to life after death?
  life after death afterlife immortality the life beyond life beyond the grave
• What words refer to not living on after death?
  oblivion end of existence finality of death

Social behavior Law Punish

Imprison

• Where are people imprisoned?
  prison brig can concentration camp correctional institution death camp dungeon house of correction jail jailhouse county jail joint pen penal colony penitentiary federal penitentiary pound reformatory slammer stockade
• What are the parts of a prison?
  cell cellblock bars stocks death row solitary confinement cooler

Person Body

Skin

• What words describe the color of a person's skin when they are sick or afraid?
  pale anemic ashen bloodless cadaverous deathly flushed ghastly lurid pallid pallor pale-faced pale as death pale as a ghost pasty sallow wan white as a sheet go white turn blue

Person Body functions

Breathe, breath

• What words refer to stopping breathing?
  expire draw your last breath death rattle

Person Body condition

Tired

• What words refer to something making someone tired?
  tire out wear out exhaust tire do someone in it nearly killed me take it out of weary fatigue drain tax wear someone down work someone to death

Person Healthy

Sick

• What words describe a person who is sick?
  ill sick unwell infirm look like death warmed over unhealthy ailing diseased incapacitated indisposed laid up

Person Life Die

Mourn

• What special music is played?
  death chant dirge funeral march

Language and thought Emotion Feel bad

Afraid

• What words refer to feeling very afraid?
  terrified terror panic panic-stricken petrified scared stiff scared out of your wits scared to death

Social behavior Religion Heaven, hell

Resurrection

• What words refer to the condition or state of living forever?
  live forever (have) eternal life life everlasting immortality life after death

States Quality Hot

Cold

• What happens to people when they get cold?
  shiver be blue with cold goose pimples goosebumps gooseflesh someone's teeth are chattering frostbite frostbitten freeze to death die of cold

Examples death examples

How do I use death in a sentence?

Simple sentences

It is a matter of life or death.

The novel ends with the heroine's death.

Her son's death broke Mary's heart.

He didn't fear death.

Overworking was the death of him.

She was scared to death of her husband.

Are you afraid of death?

You are afraid of death.

She beat him to death with a golf club.

Tom's death came as a surprise.

Tom was beaten to death with a tire iron.

Death is a mysterious lady without compassion.

The convicted drug dealer was willing to comply with the authorities to have his death sentence reduced to a life sentence.

I am against using death as a punishment. I am also against using it as a reward.

Death is only a horizon, and a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight.

I escaped death.

Students discussed the problem of brain death for a long time.

We received word of his death.

We should do away with the death penalty.

We often associate black with death.

We were nearly frozen to death.

We have the alternative of death and submission.

The whole neighborhood mourned his death.

Because of the famine, the cattle starved to death.

We confirmed her death.

We were shocked at the news of his death.

Movie subtitles

It's not like it was hard to live or even starve to death.

Nowadays we don't have much customers and we're about to starve to death.

Going off stealing things Mom, I'm so embarrassed to death because of you.

The ravages of the Black Death, the bubonic plague that had devastated Europe in the early 1 4th century, had reduced the city's population to around 40,000, less than a 20th the size of Nanjing's.

The death of Yongle had an immediate and dramatic impact.

From 1 500, anyone in China found building a ship with more than two masts was liable to the death penalty.

When faced with his own death, Jesus knew that he had to.

I know I'm doing a really good job and all, but let's not get too carried away, I mean, a lot of the people here are so scared to death of that General Koni guy.

It freaks me out! They must all be put to death!

And if you don't get out of this village, right now, he is going to command the angel Moroni, from the Death Star, to unleash the Kraken, which will then. which will then. which will then.

Whether getting beaten to death or starving to death, death is all the same.

Find the answer to your own question and death.

All equal before death.

Not to mention those death photos.

Right before your eyes. Cesare will awaken from his death-like trance.

Death shall not change anybody.

You let my father be beaten to death!

But to guard timid heart I behaved haughtily, arrogant and gruffly, I talked about the sacrifice I would make for her more evil than self-mutilation and death.

Torture and hatred I do deserve, desperation and death!

Death to the Alberghi!

Alviano, listen, it's a matter of life and death.

Death upon them!

Mortal terror and fear of death swept through the town.

They say death is not agonising.

Women's death battalion.

On a dozen far-flung battle fronts, Russia was engaged in a death grapple with the enemy.

Derek is just death and violence and kill.

I was the one who caused his death.

Today. is the date of your death.

To find out the truth about your death by yourself?

Remember it well. Only the death of the person who led you to the death (the person who killed her) can ring this bell.

Because I'm going to search for the truth of my death there.

So that you can find the truth of your death personally?

So she came back to find out the truth about her death.

You find the truth about your death.

How scary it is at the moment of your death.

What is exactly the truth about your death that makes you endure so much suffering?

Could this be all there is to know regarding the true circumstances of my death?

News and current affairs

It is, in many cases, a matter of life and death.

BRUSSELS - The recent death in Brussels of Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi finally brings to light what lay behind his mysterious two-month disappearance from public life.

Within days, Stanculescu was among those masterminding the show-trial of the Ceausescus which ended with their being sentenced to death and executed on the spot.

A growing flood of data shows that death rates in many poor countries are falling sharply, and that aid-supported programs for health-care delivery have played a key role.

In many of these countries, including the US, the European conquerors and their descendants nearly wiped out the indigenous populations, partly through disease, but also through war, starvation, death marches, and forced labor.

Second, we should consider how much death and suffering would be avoided by letting such a ruler and his henchmen go free.

But condemning thousands to death in order to be able to punish him is intolerable as well.

Enver Ziganshin, the chief engineer of BP Russia, was shot to death in Irkutsk on September 30.

Most commentators appear to think that Bush's latest prescription - a surge of 20,000 additional troops to suppress the militias in Baghdad - will, at best, merely postpone the inevitable death of his dream of a democratic Iraq.

Of course, attacking Moqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army in the name of fighting militia death squads has the potential to draw American military forces into a level of urban warfare unseen since the Falluja assaults of 2004 and 2005.

Did these short cuts help incite his death?

Yet the immediate consequences of Djindjic's death will be tragic.

Given the prevalence of this belief, Djindjic's death creates a serious power vacuum precisely because his vast personal power was moving Serbia in some of the right directions.

After all, at the time of his death he had been leader of the Palestinians for 35 years.

Reforming our innovation system is not just a matter of economics. It is, in many cases, a matter of life and death.

While billions of dollars in aid have led to improvements in urban areas, where health facilities have been built and midwives trained, the overall maternal death figures have hardly changed.

This unconscionable fabrication was fully exposed only after Abacha's death and the spate of confessions that followed it by the police agents who actually committed the crime.

Thus, some type of power struggle, rather like what occurred in the Soviet Union following Stalin's death, may invariably follow a brief period of collective rule.

Even the recent death of Osama bin Laden at the hands of United States special forces does not indicate anything about American power one way or the other.

But the best analogy for Tunisia today is Spain in the years preceding and following the death of Francisco Franco.

WARSAW - Had the August 1991 putsch against Mikhail Gorbachev not failed, the riots and death recently seen in Xinjiang could have been taking place in Russia.

In 2006, the French Jew Ilan Halimi was kidnapped and brutally tortured in a cellar for three weeks, resulting in his death.