a permanent cessation of all vital functions; the end of life
an instance of somebody or something dying
the cause or occasion of loss of life
Drinking was the death of him
the state of being dead
(Death) death personified, usu represented as a skeleton with a scythe
extinction or disappearance
language death
at death's door
seriously ill
be in at the death
to be a witness to the death of (somebody or something)
be the death of
often humorous to cause the death of (somebody)
like death warmed up
informal looking very pale and ill
to death
beyond all acceptable limits; excessively
I was bored to death
deathlike adj
[Old English dēath]