Dictionary Entry
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
- 1intransitive verb
The cessation of all vital phenomena without capability of resuscitation, either in animals or plants.
- 2intransitive verb
Total privation or loss; extinction; cessation; as, the death of memory.
- 3intransitive verb
Manner of dying; act or state of passing from life.
- 4intransitive verb
Cause of loss of life.
- 5intransitive verb
Personified: The destroyer of life, -- conventionally represented as a skeleton with a scythe.
- 6intransitive verb
Danger of death.
- 7intransitive verb
Murder; murderous character.
- 8intransitive verb
Loss of spiritual life.
- 9intransitive verb
Anything so dreadful as to be like death.
- 10noun
the act of killing
"he had two deaths on his conscience"
- 11noun
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"
- 12noun
the personification of death
"Death walked the streets of the plague-bound city"
- 13noun
the permanent end of all life functions in an organism or part of an organism
"the animal died a painful death"
- 14noun
the absence of life or state of being dead
"he seemed more content in death than he had ever been in life"
- 15noun
a final state
"he came to a bad end"
"the so-called glorious experiment came to an inglorious end"
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- 16noun
the time at which life ends; continuing until dead
"she stayed until his death"
"a struggle to the last"
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- 17noun
the time when something ends
"it was the death of all his plans"
"a dying of old hopes"
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