Definition of death

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Death (v. i.) Personified: The destroyer of life, -- conventionally represented as a skeleton with a scythe..

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Dower :: Dower (n.) That portion of the real estate of a man which his widow enjoys during her life, or to which a woman is entitled after the death of her husband..
Death :: Death (v. i.) Anything so dreadful as to be like death.
Punish :: Punish (v. t.) To impose a penalty upon; to afflict with pain, loss, or suffering for a crime or fault, either with or without a view to the offender's amendment; to cause to suffer in retribution; to chasten; as, to punish traitors with death; a father punishes his child for willful disobedience..
Agony :: Agony (n.) The last struggle of life; death struggle.
''sdeath :: 'Sdeath (interj.) An exclamation expressive of impatience or anger.
Suffocative :: Suffocation (n.) The act of suffocating, or the state of being suffocated; death caused by smothering or choking..
Threaten :: Threaten (v. t.) To exhibit the appearance of (something evil or unpleasant) as approaching; to indicate as impending; to announce the conditional infliction of; as, to threaten war; to threaten death..
Mortally :: Mortally (adv.) In a mortal manner; so as to cause death; as, mortally wounded..
Qualm :: Qualm (n.) Sickness; disease; pestilence; death.
Winter :: Winter (n.) The period of decay, old age, death, or the like..
Deathful :: Deathful (a.) Full of death or slaughter; murderous; destructive; bloody.
Post-obit Bond :: Post-obit bond () A bond in which the obligor, in consideration of having received a certain sum of money, binds himself to pay a larger sum, on unusual interest, on the death of some specified individual from whom he has expectations..
Interregnum :: Interregnum (n.) The time during which a throne is vacant between the death or abdication of a sovereign and the accession of his successor.
End :: End (n.) Termination of being; death; destruction; extermination; also, cause of death or destruction..
Empale :: Empale (v. t.) To put to death by thrusting a sharpened stake through the body.
Crucifixion :: Crucifixion (n.) The state of one who is nailed or fastened to a cross; death upon a cross.
Execute :: Execute (v. t.) To infect capital punishment on; to put to death in conformity to a legal sentence; as, to execute a traitor..
Theta :: Theta (n.) A letter of the Greek alphabet corresponding to th in English; -- sometimes called the unlucky letter, from being used by the judges on their ballots in passing condemnation on a prisoner, it being the first letter of the Greek qa`natos, death..
Necrologist :: Necrologist (n.) One who gives an account of deaths.
Attainder :: Attainder (n.) The act of attainting, or the state of being attainted; the extinction of the civil rights and capacities of a person, consequent upon sentence of death or outlawry; as, an act of attainder..
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