death

Roget category 360

3. Words relating to matter
› 3.3. Organic matter
›› 3.3.1. Vitality

#360. Death

noun

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.

verb

die, expire, perish — meet one's death, meet one's end — pass away, be taken — yield one's breath, resign one's breath — resign one's being, resign one's life — end one's days, end one's life, end one's earthly career — breathe one's last — cease to live, cease to breathe — depart this life — be no more etc. adj. — go off, drop off, pop off — lose one's life, lay down one's life, relinquish one's life, surrender one's life — drop into the grave, sink into the grave — close one's eyes — fall dead, drop dead, fall down dead, drop down dead — break one's neck — give up the ghost, yield up the ghost — be all over with one.
pay the debt to nature, shuffle off this mortal coil, take one's last sleep — go the way of all flesh — hand in one's checks, pass in one's checks, hand in one's chips, pass in one's chips [U.S.] — join the greater number, join the majority — come to dust, turn to dust — cross the Stygian ferry, cross the bar — go to one's long account, go to one's last home, go to Davy Jones's locker, go to the wall — receive one's death warrant, make one's will, step out, die a natural death, go out like the snuff of a candle — come to an untimely end — catch one's death — go off the hooks, kick the bucket, buy the farm, hop the twig, turn up one's toes — die a violent death etc. (be killed) 361.

adjective

dead, lifeless — deceased, demised, departed, defunct, extinct — late, gone, no more — exanimate^†, inanimate — out of the world, taken off, released — departed this life etc. v. — dead and gone — dead as a doornail, dead as a doorpost^†, dead as a mutton, dead as a herring, dead as nits — launched into eternity, gone to one's eternal reward, gone to meet one's maker, pushing up daisies, gathered to one's fathers, numbered with the dead.
dying etc. v. — moribund, morient^† — hippocratic — in articulo, in extremis — in the jaws of death, in the agony of death — going off — aux abois [Fr.] — one one's last legs, on one's death bed — at the point of death, at death's door, at the last gasp — near one's end, given over, booked — with one foot in the grave, tottering on the brink of the grave.
stillborn — mortuary — deadly etc. (killing) 361.

adverb

post obit, post mortem [Lat.].

phrase

life ebbs, life fails, life hangs by a thread — one's days are numbered, one's hour is come, one's race is run, one's doom is sealed — Death knocks at the door, Death stares one in the face — the breath is out of the body — the grave closes over one — sic itur ad astra [Lat.] [Vergil]; de mortuis nil nisi bonum [Lat.] — dulce et decorum est pro patria mori [Lat.] [Horace]; honesta mors turpi vita potior [Lat.] [Tacitus]; in adamantine chains shall death be bound" [Pope]; mors ultima linea rerum est [Lat.] [Girace]; ominia mors aequat [Lat.] [Claudianus]; Spake the grisly Terror" [Paradise Lost]; the lone couch of this everlasting sleep" [Shelley]; nothing is certain but death and taxes.

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