death : Idioms & Phrases

• noun a percentage of death benefits paid directly to policy holders having a short life expectancy (usually 6 months)
  

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• noun the epidemic form of bubonic plague experienced during the Middle Ages when it killed nearly half the people of western Europe
  Black Plague.
  

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• . See Black death, in the Vocabulary.

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• noun death when respiration and other reflexes are absent; consciousness is gone; organs can be removed for transplantation before the heartbeat stops
  brain death.
  

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• noun a type of cell death in which the cell uses specialized cellular machinery to kill itself; a cell suicide mechanism that enables metazoans to control cell number and eliminate cells that threaten the animal's survival
  apoptosis; caspase-mediated cell death.
  

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• noun the causal agent resulting in death
  killer.
  
  • heart disease is the biggest killer in the United States

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• noun (physiology) the normal degeneration and death of living cells (as in various epithelial cells)
  necrobiosis.
  

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• noun death when respiration and other reflexes are absent; consciousness is gone; organs can be removed for transplantation before the heartbeat stops
  brain death.
  

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• noun the legal status of a person who is alive but who has been deprived of the rights and privileges of a citizen or a member of society; the legal status of one sentenced to life imprisonment
  
• noun cancellation of civil rights
  attainder.
  

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• the separation of a man from civil society, or the debarring him from the enjoyment of civil rights, as by banishment, attainder, abjuration of the realm, entering a monastery, etc. Blackstone.

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• noun sudden and unexpected death of an apparently healthy infant during sleep
  cot death; SIDS; crib death; infant death.
  

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• noun sudden and unexpected death of an apparently healthy infant during sleep
  cot death; SIDS; crib death; infant death.
  

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• noun a medieval dance in which a skeleton representing death leads a procession of others to the grave
  danse macabre.
  

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• noun venomous Australian snake resembling an adder
  Acanthophis antarcticus.
  

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• . (Zoöl.) (a) A kind of viper found in South Africa (Acanthophis tortor); so called from the virulence of its venom. (b) A venomous Australian snake of the family Elapidæ, of several species, as the Hoplocephalus superbus and Acanthopis antarctica.

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• noun extremely poisonous usually white fungus with a prominent cup-shaped base; differs from edible Agaricus only in its white gills
  Amanita phalloides; death angel; destroying angel; death cap.
  

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• noun a bell rung to announce a death
  death bell.
  

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• a bell that announces a death.

  The death bell thrice was heard to ring. Mickle.

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• noun insurance or pension money payable to a beneficiary of a deceased
  

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• noun any of various plants of the genus Zigadenus having glaucous leaves and terminal racemes of mostly white flowers; all are poisonous
  zigadene.
  

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• noun a concentration camp where prisoners are likely to die or be killed
  

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• a light like that of a candle, viewed by the superstitious as presaging death.

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• noun extremely poisonous usually white fungus with a prominent cup-shaped base; differs from edible Agaricus only in its white gills
  Amanita phalloides; death angel; destroying angel; death cap.
  

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• noun an instrument of execution by electrocution; resembles an ordinary seat for one person
  electric chair; chair; hot seat.
  
  • the murderer was sentenced to die in the chair

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• noun instrument of execution consisting of a sealed chamber into which poison gas is introduced; used to kill people or animals
  gas chamber.
  

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• noun extremely poisonous usually white fungus with a prominent cup-shaped base; differs from edible Agaricus only in its white gills
  Amanita phalloides; death angel; destroying angel; death cap.
  

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• a cold sweat at the coming on of death.

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• noun a tax on the estate of the deceased person
  death duty; estate tax; inheritance tax.
  

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• a kind of ignis fatuus supposed to forebode death.

  And round about in reel and rout, The death fires danced at night. Coleridge.

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• a grapple or struggle for life.

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• noun the cellblock in a prison where those condemned to death await execution
  death house.
  

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• a condition but little removed from death; a living death. Poetic "Lay lingering out a five years' death in life." Tennyson.

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• noun (psychoanalysis) an unconscious urge to die
  Thanatos; death instinct.
  

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• noun an omen of death or destruction
  
• noun a bell rung to announce a death
  death bell.
  

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• a stroke or tolling of a bell, announcing a death.

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• noun a cast taken from the face of a dead person
  

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• noun putting a condemned person to death
  executing; execution; capital punishment.
  

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• noun the ratio of deaths in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 per year
  fatality rate; deathrate; mortality rate; mortality.
  

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• the relation or ratio of the number of deaths to the population.

  At all ages the death rate is higher in towns than in rural districts. Darwin.

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• a rattling or gurgling in the throat of a dying person.

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• noun the cellblock in a prison where those condemned to death await execution
  death house.
  

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• noun the car seat beside the driver of an automobile; believed to be the most dangerous place to sit in a car in case of an accident
  

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• noun a clandestine military or paramilitary team who murder political dissidents or petty criminals (usually with the government's tacit approval)
  

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• a stroke causing death.

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• noun a tax on the estate of the deceased person
  death duty; estate tax; inheritance tax.
  

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• the spasm of death.

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• the signal of approaching death.

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• noun the number of deaths resulting from some particular cause such as an accident or a battle or a natural disaster
  

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• noun a desert area that is part of the Mojave Desert in eastern California and southwestern Nevada; contains the lowest point in North America
  

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• noun a warrant to execute the death sentence
  

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• . (a) (Law) An order from the proper authority for the execution of a criminal. (b) That which puts an end to expectation, hope, or joy.

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• noun (psychoanalysis) an unconscious urge to die
  Thanatos; death instinct.
  

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• . (a) A fatal wound or injury. (b) (Naut.) The springing of a fatal leak.

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• the boundary of life; the partition dividing life from death.

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• noun a human skull (or a representation of a human skull) used as a symbol of death
  

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Death's"-head` noun

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1. A naked human skull as the emblem of death; the head of the conventional personification of death.

   I had rather be married to a death's-head with a bone in his mouth. Shak.

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• noun European hawkmoth with markings on the back resembling a human skull
  Acherontia atropos.
  

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Death's"-herb` noun

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1. The deadly nightshade (Atropa belladonna). Dr. Prior.

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• noun a list of persons killed in a war or other disaster
  

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• noun plant of western North America to Mexico; poisonous especially to grazing animals
  Zigadenus venenosus gramineus; Zigadenus venenosus.
  

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• noun a death resulting from an accident or a disaster
  fatality.
  
  • a decrease in the number of automobile fatalities

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• L. in articulo mortis, at the moment of death; in the dying struggle.

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• noun sudden and unexpected death of an apparently healthy infant during sleep
  cot death; SIDS; crib death; infant death.
  

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• noun something that is ruinous
  
  • if this were known it would be the kiss of death for my political career

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• adjective satellite vitally important
  life-and-death.
  
  • a life-and-death struggle

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• adjective satellite vitally important
  life-and-death.
  
  • a life-and-death struggle

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• noun a state of constant misery
  

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• noun the experience of being close to death but surviving
  

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• noun death of a liveborn infant within the first 28 days of life
  

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• noun a type of cell death in which the cell uses specialized cellular machinery to kill itself; a cell suicide mechanism that enables metazoans to control cell number and eliminate cells that threaten the animal's survival
  apoptosis; caspase-mediated cell death.
  

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• verb kill as a means of socially sanctioned punishment
  execute.
  
  • In some states, criminals are executed

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• noun the act of terminating a life
  kill; killing.
  

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• darkness or gloom like that caused by the presence or the impending of death.

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• . See the Note under Death, n., 1.

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• (Scripture), the corruption and perversion of the soul by sin, with the loss of the favor of God.

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• noun (sports) overtime in which play is stopped as soon as one contestant scores; e.g. football and golf
  

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• noun sudden and unexpected death of an apparently healthy infant during sleep
  cot death; SIDS; crib death; infant death.
  

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• . See the Note under Death, n., 1.

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• the grave.

  Have the gates of death been opened unto thee? Job xxxviii. 17.

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• condemnation to eternal separation from God. Rev. ii. 11.

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• to be the cause of death to; to make die. "It was one who should be the death of both his parents." Milton.

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• to put to death. (See 7.) Obs.

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• to kill.

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• noun an event that causes someone to die
  killing.
  

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• noun a death that results from a wrongful act or from negligence; a death that can serve as the basis for a civil action for damages on behalf of the dead person's family or heirs
  

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