Word Meanings - DEATH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Loss of spiritual life. To be death. Rom. viii. 6. 9. Anything so dreadful as to be like death. It was death to them to think of entertaining such doctrines. Atterbury. And urged him, so that his soul was vexed unto death. Judg. xvi. 16. Note: Death

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Loss of spiritual life. To be death. Rom. viii. 6. 9. Anything so dreadful as to be like death. It was death to them to think of entertaining such doctrines. Atterbury. And urged him, so that his soul was vexed unto death. Judg. xvi. 16. Note: Death is much used adjectively and as the first part of a compound, meaning, in general, of or pertaining to death, causing or presaging death; as, deathbed or death bed; deathblow or death blow, etc. Black death. See Black death, in the Vocabulary. -- Civil death, the separation of a man from civil society, or the debarring him from the enjoyment of civil rights, as by banishment, attainder, abjuration of the realm, entering a monastery, etc. Blackstone. -- Death adder. A kind of viper found in South Africa ; -- so called from the virulence of its venom. A venomous Australian snake of the family Elapidæ, of several species, as the Hoplocephalus superbus and Acanthopis antarctica. -- Death bell, a bell that announces a death. The death bell thrice was heard to ring. Mickle. -- Death candle, a light like that of a candle, viewed by the superstitious as presaging death. -- Death damp, a cold sweat at the coming on of death. -- Death fire, a kind of ignis fatuus supposed to forebode death. And round about in reel and rout, The death fires danced at night. Coleridge. -- Death grapple, a grapple or struggle for life. -- Death in life, a condition but little removed from death; a living death. "Lay lingering out a five years' death in life." Tennyson. -- Death knell, a stroke or tolling of a bell, announcing a death. -- Death rate, the relation or ratio of the number of deaths to the population. At all ages the death rate is higher in towns than in rural districts. Darwin. -- Death rattle, a rattling or gurgling in the throat of a dying person. -- Death's door, the boundary of life; the partition dividing life from death. -- Death stroke, a stroke causing death. -- Death throe, the spasm of death. -- Death token, the signal of approaching death. -- Death warrant. An order from the proper authority for the execution of a criminal. That which puts an end to expectation, hope, or joy. -- Death wound. A fatal wound or injury. The springing of a fatal leak. -- Spiritual death , the corruption and perversion of the soul by sin, with the loss of the favor of God. -- The gates of death, the grave. Have the gates of death been opened unto thee Job xxxviii. 17. -- The second death, condemnation to eternal separation from God. Rev. ii. 11. -- To be the death of, to be the cause of death to; to make die. "It was one who should be the death of both his parents." Milton. Syn. -- Death, Decrase, Departure, Release. Death applies to the termination of every form of existence, both animal and vegetable; the other words only to the human race. Decease is the term used in law for the removal of a human being out of life in the ordinary course of nature. Demise was formerly confined to decease of princes, but is now sometimes used of distinguished men in general; as, the demise of Mr. Pitt. Departure and release are peculiarly terms of Christian affection and hope. A violent death is not usually called a decease. Departure implies a friendly taking leave of life. Release implies a deliverance from a life of suffering or sorrow. (more info) tod, Icel. dau, Sw. & Dan. död, Goth. daupus; from a verb meaning to 1. The cessation of all vital phenomena without capability of resuscitation, either in animals or plants. Note: 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 death is of two kinds; death of the body as a whole , and death of the tissues. By the former is implied the absolute cessation of the functions of the brain, the circulatory and the respiratory organs; by the latter the entire disappearance of the vital actions of the ultimate structural constituents of the body. When death takes place, the body as a whole dies first, the death of the tissues sometimes not occurring until after a considerable interval. Huxley. 2. Total privation or loss; extinction; cessation; as, the death of memory. The death of a language can not be exactly compared with the death of a plant. J. Peile. 3. Manner of dying; act or state of passing from life. A death that I abhor. Shak. Let me die the death of the righteous. Num. xxiii. 10. 4. Cause of loss of life. Swiftly flies the feathered death. Dryden. He caught his death the last county sessions. Addison. 5. Personified: The destroyer of life, -- conventionally represented as a skeleton with a scythe. Death! great proprietor of all. Young. And I looked, and behold a pale horse; and his name that at on him was Death. Rev. vi. 8. 6. Danger of death. "In deaths oft." 2 Cor. xi. 23. 7. Murder; murderous character. Not to suffer a man of death to live. Bacon.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DEATH)

• Extinction
• Destruction
• stifling
• suffocation
• death
• cessation
• annihilation
• obsolescence
• Kill
• Slay
• murder
• assassinate
• destroy
• slaughter
• butcher
• immolate
• massacre
• deaden
• put to death
• despatch
• Tomb
• Grave
• vault
• catacomb
• sepulcher
• crypt
• house of death
• narrow house
• long home

Related words: (words related to DEATH)

• IMMOLATE
  To sacrifice; to offer in sacrifice; to kill, as a sacrificial victim. Worshipers, who not only immolate to them the lives of men, but . . . the virtue and honor of women. Boyle. (more info) orig., to sprinkle a victim with sacrifical meal; pref.
• GRAVES
  The sediment of melted tallow. Same as Greaves.
• CRYPTOGRAPHIST
  See CRYPTOGRAPHER
• DEATHLIKE
  1. Resembling death. A deathlike slumber, and a dead repose. Pope. 2. Deadly. "Deathlike dragons." Shak.
• STIFLED
  Stifling. The close and stifled study. Hawthorne.
• GRAVEDIGGER
  See T (more info) 1. A digger of graves.
• DEATHLY
  Deadly; fatal; mortal; destructive.
• CRYPTOGRAM
  A cipher writing. Same as Cryptograph.
• SLAUGHTERHOUSE
  A house where beasts are butchered for the market.
• BUTCHERING
  1. The business of a butcher. 2. The act of slaughtering; the act of killing cruelly and needlessly. That dreadful butchering of one another. Addison.
• BUTCHER'S BROOM
  A genus of plants ; esp. R. aculeatus, which has large red berries and leaflike branches. See Cladophyll.
• DESTROYABLE
  Destructible. Plants . . . scarcely destroyable by the weather. Derham.
• VAULTING
  1. The act of constructing vaults; a vaulted construction. 2. Act of one who vaults or leaps.
• DEATHLINESS
  The quality of being deathly; deadliness. Southey.
• GRAVEL
  A deposit of small calculous concretions in the kidneys and the urinary or gall bladder; also, the disease of which they are a symptom. Gravel powder, a coarse gunpowder; pebble powder. (more info) strand; of Celtic origin; cf. Armor.
• CRYPTOPINE
  A colorless crystalline alkaloid obtained in small quantities from opium.
• VAULTY
  Arched; concave. "The vaulty heaven." Shak.
• HOUSEWIFE
  A little case or bag for materials used in sewing, and for 3. A hussy. Shak. Sailor's housewife, a ditty-bag. (more info) 1. The wife of a householder; the mistress of a family; the female head of a household. Shak. He a good husband, a good
• CRYPTOBRANCHIATA
  A division of the Amphibia; the Derotremata. A group of nudibranch mollusks.
• ANNIHILATION
  1. The act of reducing to nothing, or nonexistence; or the act of destroying the form or combination of parts under which a thing exists, so that the name can no longer be applied to it; as, the annihilation of a corporation. 2. The state of being
• PACKHOUSE
  Warehouse for storing goods.
• WAREHOUSE
  A storehouse for wares, or goods. Addison.
• POSTHOUSE
  1. A house established for the convenience of the post, where relays of horses can be obtained. 2. A house for distributing the malls; a post office.
• HENHOUSE
  A house or shelter for fowls.
• TRUGGING-HOUSE
  A brothel. Robert Greene.
• FULL HOUSE
  A hand containing three of a kind and a pair, as three kings and two tens. It ranks above a flush and below four of a kind.
• WATCHHOUSE
  1. A house in which a watch or guard is placed. 2. A place where persons under temporary arrest by the police of a city are kept; a police station; a lockup.
• TIRING-HOUSE
  A tiring-room. Shak.
• ENVAULT
  To inclose in a vault; to entomb. Swift.
• WILDGRAVE
  A waldgrave, or head forest keeper. See Waldgrave. The wildgrave winds his bugle horn. Sir W. Scott.