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1. Death
   Generally understood to be the extinction of an organism's life. Many doctrines assert some form of mental or spiritual survival of physical death. See also deathbed experience, haunting, mediumship, near-death experience, reincarnation.
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2. Death
   Meaning as a surname: One who played the part in plays or pageants.
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3. Death
   Generally understood to be the extinction of an organism's life. Many doctrines assert some form of mental or spiritual survival of physical death. See also deathbed experience, haunting, mediumship, near-death experience, reincarnation.
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4. death
   [n] - the time when something ends 2. [n] - the time at which life ends 3. [n] - the absence of life or state of being dead 4. [n] - the permanent end of all life functions in an organism or part of an organism 5. [n] - the personification of death 6. [n] - the event of dy...
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5. death
   Rich Romans had to do little work and could expect to live to 50 or 60, whereas poorer people rarely lived beyond 50. See enties for cremation and funeral rites.
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6. Death
   Death: 1. The end of life. The cessation of life. (These common definitions of death ultimately depend upon the definition of life, upon which there is no consensus.) 2. The permanent cessation of all vital bodily functions. (This definition depends upon the definition of 'vital bodily functions.') ...
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7. death
   cessation of life; Not living; Dead; Cardiac death: irreversible cardiac arrest; Clinical death: cessation of spontaneous breathing movements and total circulatory arrest; An early period of death which may yet be reversed by energetic resuscitation; Cerebral death: the destruction of a part (cortex...
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8. Death
   Death (dĕth) noun [ Middle English deth , deað , Anglo-Saxon deáð ; akin to Old Saxon dōð , Dutch dood , German tod , Icelandic dauði , Swedish & Danish död , Goth. dau&t...
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9. death
   1. The cessation of all vital phenomena without capability of resuscitation, either in animals or plants. ... Local death is going on at times and in all parts of the living body, in which individual cells and elements are being cast off and replaced by new; a process essential to life. General deat...
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10. death
    decease 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`
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11. death
    noun the act of killing; `he had two deaths on his conscience`
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12. death
    dying noun the time when something ends; `it was the death of all his plans`; `a dying of old hopes`
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13. Death
    noun the personification of death; `Death walked the streets of the plague-bound city`
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14. death
    noun the permanent end of all life functions in an organism or part of an organism; `the animal died a painful death`
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15. death
    noun the absence of life or state of being dead; `he seemed more content in death than he had ever been in life`
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16. death
    (deth) the cessation of life; permanent cessation of all vital bodily functions. For legal and medical purposes, the following definition of death has been proposed—the irreversible cessation of all of the following: (1) total brain function, (2) spontaneous breathing and other functions of the respiratory s...
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17. Death
    • (v. i.) Cause of loss of life. • (v. i.) Danger of death. • (v. i.) Murder; murderous character. • (v. i.) Manner of dying; act or state of passing from life. • (v. i.) Total privation or loss; extinction; cessation; as, the death of memory. • (v. i.) Anything so drea...
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18. death
    the total cessation of life processes that eventually occurs in all living organisms. The state of human death has always been obscured by mystery ... [54 related articles]
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19. death
    death 1. The end of life; the total and permanent cessation of all the vital functions of an organism. 2. The state of being dead. 3. The destruction or extinction of something. Quotations Did you hear about the despondent cockroach who committed insecticide? —S. Friedman A s...
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20. death
    Type: Term Pronunciation: deth Definitions: 1. The cessation of life. In lower multicellular organisms, death is a gradual process at the cellular level, because tissues vary in their ability to withstand deprivation of oxygen; in higher organisms, a cessation of integrated tissue and organ function...
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21. death
    
    • the event of dying or departure from life
    • the permanent end of all life functions in an organism or part of an organism
    • the end of life; continuing until dead
    • the absence of life or state of being dead
    • the time when something ends
    • the act of killing
    • a final state
    
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22. death
    death, cessation of all life (metabolic) processes. Death may involve the organism as a whole (somatic death) or may be confined to cells and tissues within the organism. Causes of death in human beings include injury, acute or chronic disease, and neoplasia (cancer). The physiological death of cell...
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23. Death
    Death is that state of a being, animal or vegetable, but more particularly of an animal, in which there is a total and permanent cessation of all the vital functions, when the organs have not only ceased to act, but have lost the susceptibility of renewed action. Death takes place either from the na...
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24. death
    Type: Term Definitions: 1. thanatophobia.
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25. death
    Cessation of all life functions, so that the molecules and structures associated with living things become disorganized and indistinguishable from similar molecules found in nonliving things. In medicine, a person is pronounced dead when the brain ceases to control the vital functions, even if breat...
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