death
/dɛθ/ noun A2- The cessation of life and all associated processes; the end of an organism's existence as an entity independent from its environment and its return to an inert, non-living state. · My grandfather died/met a violent death, which saddened the whole family.
- Execution (in the judicial sense). · The serial killer was sentenced to death.
- The personification of death as a (usually male) hooded figure with a scythe; the Grim Reaper. · When death walked in, a chill spread through the room.
- The collapse or end of something. · England scored a goal at the death to even the score at one all.
- A cause of great stress, exhaustion, embarrassment, or another negative condition (for someone). · This bake sale is going to be the death of me!
- Spiritual lifelessness.
Plural deaths
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“’Tis true, madame,” answered he, “that my father was a Girondin, but he was not among the number of those who voted for the king’s death; he was an equal sufferer with yourself during the Reign of Terror, and had well-nigh lost his head on the same scaffold on which your father perished.”
that while I purposed to hunt another, I am myself fallen unawares into the snares of death.”
I have already recorded sentence of death, five or six times, against the movers of political conspiracies, and who can say how many daggers may be ready sharpened, and only waiting a favorable opportunity to be buried in my heart?”
No sooner had Villefort left the salon, than he assumed the grave air of a man who holds the balance of life and death in his hands.
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