The event of dying or departure from life:
— Her death came as a terrible shock.

synonyms: decease, expiry.

Roget 67: end, close, termination; desinence^†, conclusion, finis, finale, period, term, terminus, endpoint, last, omega; extreme, extremity; gable end, butt end, fag-end; tip, nib, point; tail etc. (rear) 235; verge etc. (edge) 231; tag, peroration; bonne bouche [Fr.]; bottom dollar, tail end, rear guard.    consummation, denouement; finish etc. (completion) 729; fate; doom, doomsday; crack of doom, day of Judgment, dies irae, fall of the curtain; goal, destination; limit, determination; expiration, expiry^†, extinction, extermination; death etc. 360; end of all things; finality; eschatology.    break up, commencement de la fin, last stage, turning point; coup de grace, deathblow; knock-out-blow; sockdolager [U.S.].    ... show more

Roget 360: death; decease, demise; dissolution, departure, obit, release, rest, quietus, fall; loss, bereavement; mortality, morbidity.    end of life etc. 67, cessation of life etc. 142, loss of life, extinction of life, ebb of life etc. 359.    death warrant, death watch, death rattle, death bed; stroke of death, agonies of death, shades of death, valley of death, jaws of death, hand of death; last breath, last gasp, last agonies; dying day, dying breath, dying agonies; chant du cygne [Fr.]; rigor mortis [Lat.]; Stygian shore.    King of terrors, King Death; Death; doom etc. (necessity) 601; Hell's grim Tyrant" [Pope]. euthanasia; break up of the system; natural death, natural decay; sudden death, violent death; untimely end, watery grave; debt of nature; suffocation, asphyxia; fatal disease etc. (disease) 655; death blow etc. (killing) 361.    necrology, bills of mortality, obituary; death song etc. (lamentation) 839.    ... show more

Dutch: dood, heengaan, overlijden, verscheiden
Polish: odejście, skonanie, umarcie, zmarcie

The permanent end of all life functions in an organism or part of an organism.

Dutch: dood
Polish: skon, zgon, zejście, grób, koniec, odejście, śmierć

The absence of life or state of being dead.

The time when something ends:
— It was the death of all his plans.

synonyms: demise, dying.

Polish: śmierć

The time at which life ends; continuing until dead:
— She stayed until his death.

synonym: last.

Dutch: dood

The personification of death.

Dutch: overlijden
Polish: kostucha, ponury żniwiarz, śmierć

A final state.

synonyms: destruction, end.

Roget 142: cessation, discontinuance, desistance, desinence^†.    intermission, remission; suspense, suspension; interruption; stop; stopping etc. v.; closure, stoppage, halt; arrival etc. 292.    pause, rest, lull, respite, truce, drop; interregnum, abeyance; cloture [U.S.].    dead stop, dead stand, dead lock; finis, cerrado [Sp.]; blowout, burnout, meltdown, disintegration; comma, colon, semicolon, period, full stop; end etc. 67; death etc. 360.    ... show more

Dutch: eind, einde, end

The act of killing.