| 单词 | death |
| 释义 | death (once / 36 pages) n Death is the end of life. Whether it’s only an instant or it takes years, death is always permanent, no matter what vampire movies try to tell you. Death has many meanings and uses, but it always means the end of something. It can be a single moment like the death of a fish eaten by an alligator, a slow process like the death of cassette tapes as compact discs became popular, or an ongoing state like the death of an ancient language. Death isn’t always bad: the death of a human is depressing, but the death of a vegetable is dinner. WORD FAMILYdeath: deathless, deathlike, deathly, deaths+/deathless: deathlessly/die: death, died, dies, dying/dying: dyingly, dyings, undying/undying: undyingly USAGE EXAMPLESStrawberry played despite learning of his maternal grandfather’s death earlier Monday. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) But even if Roof is sentenced to death, it's highly unlikely he'd be executed any time soon. Los Angeles Times(Jan 02, 2017) A post-mortem examination is to be held to investigate the unexplained death of a British woman in Australia, police say. BBC(Jan 02, 2017) 1n the permanent end of all life functions in an organism or part of an organism the animal died a painful death Hypo|Hyper cell death, necrobiosis (physiology) the normal degeneration and death of living cells (as in various epithelial cells) gangrene, mortification, necrosis, sphacelusthe localized death of living cells (as from infection or the interruption of blood supply) brain death, cerebral deathdeath when respiration and other reflexes are absent; consciousness is gone; organs can be removed for transplantation before the heartbeat stops apoptosis, caspase-mediated cell death, programmed cell deatha type of cell death in which the cell uses specialized cellular machinery to kill itself; a cell suicide mechanism that enables metazoans to control cell number and eliminate cells that threaten the animal's survival myonecrosislocalized death of muscle cell fibers organic phenomenon (biology) a natural phenomenon involving living plants and animals 2n the event of dying or departure from life her death came as a terrible shock Syn|Ant|Exp|Hypo|Hyper decease, expiry birth, nascence, nascency, nativity the event of being born Crucifixion the death of Jesus by crucifixion fatality, human death a death resulting from an accident or a disaster martyrdomdeath that is imposed because of the person's adherence of a religious faith or cause megadeaththe death of a million people departure, exit, expiration, going, loss, passing, releaseeuphemistic expressions for death wrongful deatha death that results from a wrongful act or from negligence; a death that can serve as the basis for a civil action for damages on behalf of the dead person's family or heirs killing, violent deathan event that causes someone to die casualty, fatal accidentan accident that causes someone to die alteration, change, modification an event that occurs when something passes from one state or phase to another 3n the absence of life or state of being dead he seemed more content in death than he had ever been in life Hypo|Hyper eternal rest, eternal sleep, quietus, rest, sleep euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb) defunctness, extinctionno longer in existence neonatal deathdeath of a liveborn infant within the first 28 days of life SIDS, cot death, crib death, infant death, sudden infant death syndromesudden and unexpected death of an apparently healthy infant during sleep state the way something is with respect to its main attributes 4n the time at which life ends; continuing until dead she stayed until his death Syn|Hyper last end, ending the point in time at which something ends 5n the act of killing he had two deaths on his conscience Hyper kill, killing, putting to death the act of terminating a life 6n the time when something ends it was the death of all his plans Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper demise, dying birth the time when something begins (especially life) grave death of a person end, ending the point in time at which something ends 7n a final state Syn|Hyper destruction, end state the way something is with respect to its main attributes Death (once / 335 pages) n WORD FAMILY Death: Deaths USAGE EXAMPLESDeaths of babies also dropped by about one-third. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) Death penalty experts said it was exceedingly rare for capital defendants to represent themselves after allowing lawyers to handle the initial part of a case. New York Times(Jan 01, 2017) Europe’s Black Death, at its worst, carried off thirty to sixty per cent of the population. The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) n the personification of death Death walked the streets of the plague-bound city Exp|Exp Grim Reaper Death personified as an old man or a skeleton with a scythe imaginary being, imaginary creature a creature of the imagination; a person that exists only in legends or myths or fiction |
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