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Definition: Meaning of, death in English to English dictionary.

Pronunciation: / dɛθ /

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  1. [uncountable] the end of the life of a person or animal
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  2. [countable] a particular case when someone dies
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  3. the death of something the permanent end of something
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  4. to death informal used to emphasize that a feeling or emotion is very strong
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  5. to death informal used to say that an action is continued with a lot of effort and for as long as possible
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  6. do something to death informal to perform or present an idea, joke etc so often that people become tired of it
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  7. to the death until someone is dead
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  8. to the death until you achieve something even if it means that you suffer
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  9. Death a creature that looks like a human SKELETON, used in paintings, stories etc to represent the fact that people die
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  10. be at death's door to be very ill and likely to die
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  11. look/feel like death warmed up British English American English informal to look or feel very ill or tired
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  12. you'll catch your death (of cold) spoken old-fashioned used to warn someone that they are likely to become ill because they are wet or cold
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  13. somebody will be the death of me spoken old-fashioned used to say that someone is causing you a lot of worry and problems
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Death


Definition: Meaning of, Death in English to English dictionary.

Pronunciation: / dɛθ /

  • noun
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Word Forms:
Singular Plural
Death deaths
  1. the personification of death
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Death used in phrases

  • Black Death (noun)
    1. the Black Death the illness that killed large numbers of people in Europe and Asia in the 14th century
  • Dance of Death
    1. an imaginary dance which people are supposed to perform as they are being led to their death by a SKELETON (= a body consisting only of bones) representing death. It was very common in pictures and drawings in the MIDDLE AGES, but there are also descriptions of it in music and literature.
  • Death Valley
    1. an area of desert in the US states of Nevada and California. It is one of the hottest places in the world, and many people died trying to cross it in the 19th century.
  • Death in Venice
    1. (1912) a novel by Thomas MANN, which was made into a film in 1971, about a successful writer in Venice who falls in love with a beautiful Polish boy and therefore does not want to leave the city, even though there is CHOLERA there. He stays, and finally dies from the disease.
  • Death of a Salesman
    1. (1949) a play by Arthur MILLER about a man called Willy Loman, who kills himself because he has lost his job and feels that he has failed
  • Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (noun)
    1. technical when a baby stops breathing and dies while it is sleeping, for no known reason [=  crib death AmE [=  cot death British English]
  • accidental death (noun)
    1. an expression used by a court when it has decided that someone's death was caused by an accident
  • advance death benefit (noun)
    1. usually 6 months a percentage of death benefits paid directly to policy holders having a short life expectancy
  • brain death (noun)
    1. death when respiration and other reflexes are absent; consciousness is gone; organs can be removed for transplantation before the heartbeat stops
  • caspase-mediated cell death (noun)
    1. 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
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