death

death is a 5-letter English word with 17 senses as intransitive verb and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The cessation of all vital phenomena without capability of resuscitation, either in animals or plants. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 8 · 17 senses

Definitions

1. intransitive verb. The cessation of all vital phenomena without capability of resuscitation, either in animals or plants.
2. intransitive verb. Total privation or loss; extinction; cessation; as, the death of memory.
3. intransitive verb. Manner of dying; act or state of passing from life.
4. intransitive verb. Cause of loss of life.
5. intransitive verb. Personified: The destroyer of life, -- conventionally represented as a skeleton with a scythe.
6. intransitive verb. Danger of death.
7. intransitive verb. Murder; murderous character.
8. intransitive verb. Loss of spiritual life.
9. intransitive verb. Anything so dreadful as to be like death.
10. noun. the act of killing

    "he had two deaths on his conscience"

11. noun. 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"

    Synonyms: decease, expiry

12. noun. the personification of death

    "Death walked the streets of the plague-bound city"

13. noun. the permanent end of all life functions in an organism or part of an organism

    "the animal died a painful death"

14. noun. the absence of life or state of being dead

    "he seemed more content in death than he had ever been in life"

15. noun. a final state

    "he came to a bad end"

    "the so-called glorious experiment came to an inglorious end"

    Synonyms: destruction, end

16. noun. the time at which life ends; continuing until dead

    "she stayed until his death"

    "a struggle to the last"

    Synonyms: last

17. noun. the time when something ends

    "it was the death of all his plans"

    "a dying of old hopes"

    Synonyms: demise, dying

Synonyms

decease, expiry, destruction, end, last, demise, dying

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in death:

hated

Common word forms

deaths, deathly, deathful, deathless

Words from these letters

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