The act or fact of dying; the end of life; the permanent cessation of the vital functions of a… Regarded as an animate agent, often (frequently…

An appellation of Death. archaic.

One who stings; applied figuratively to Death. Also, one who goads or instigates; one who has a sharp tongue.

that which lays prostrate, Death.

(with the) death personified.

figurative. A person who or thing which severs or parts persons or things closely united.

figurative. Death personified. Frequently with modifying adjective, as great, old. See also grim reaper n. at grim, adj. adv.additions.

A very thin or gaunt person or animal, a mere skeleton. Also in plural: Death personified. Now rare.

Death, imagined as a skeleton.

death (or a cause of death) personified, typically as a cloaked skeleton wielding a large scythe; chiefly with the; cf. reaper, n. 1b.

the greator last enemy: death (cf. 1 Corinthians xv. 26).

figurative. Applied to Time and to Death.