death
Noun
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is a type of: alteration, change, modification - an event that occurs when something passes from one state or phase to anothersubtypes:
- fatality, human death - a death resulting from an accident or a disaster
- martyrdom - death that is imposed because of the person's adherence of a religious faith or cause
- megadeath - the death of a million people
- departure, exit, expiration, going, loss, passing, release - euphemistic expressions for death
- wrongful death - a 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
specific instances: crucifixion - the death of Jesus by crucifixion -
is a type of: organic phenomenon - (biology) a natural phenomenon involving living plants and animalssubtypes:
- cell death, necrobiosis - (physiology) the normal degeneration and death of living cells (as in various epithelial cells)
- gangrene, mortification, necrosis, sphacelus - the localized death of living cells (as from infection or the interruption of blood supply)
- brain death, cerebral death - death when respiration and other reflexes are absent; consciousness is gone; organs can be removed for transplantation before the heartbeat stops
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is a type of: state - the way something is with respect to its main attributessubtypes:
- eternal rest, eternal sleep, quietus, rest, sleep - euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb)
- defunctness, extinction - no longer in existence
- neonatal death - death of a liveborn infant within the first 28 days of life
- cot death, crib death, infant death, sids, sudden infant death syndrome - sudden and unexpected death of an apparently healthy infant during sleep
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subtypes: grave - death of a person
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same as: last
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is an instance of: imaginary being, imaginary creature - a creature of the imagination; a person that exists only in legends or myths or fictionspecific instances: grim reaper, reaper - Death personified as an old man or a skeleton with a scythe
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is a type of: state - the way something is with respect to its main attributessame as: destruction, end
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