death in English: The end of life, when a person or animal stops living. (noun)

Translation

The end of life, when a person or animal stops living.

Word origin

From Old English death, built from the verb to die with an ending that turns an action into a thing.

Gender

Pluraldeaths

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"Death" is the moment when a life ends.

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Here "death" means that her father died.

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"Deaths" is the plural, so more than one person died.

die

To stop living and be dead.

life

The state of being alive, or the time between birth and death.

kill

To make a person, animal, or plant die.

live

To have your home in a place, or to be alive.

end

The last part of something, or the place where it stops.

funeral

The meeting held after someone dies, where family and friends say goodbye before the body is buried or burned.

grave

The place in the ground where a dead person is buried, often marked with a stone.

poison

Something that makes you very ill or kills you if you eat it, drink it or breathe it in.

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