Definition of: death

(deth) noun
1. Cessation of physical life.
2. Extinction of anything; destruction.
3. Something likely to produce death; a cause or occasion of death.
4. Something considered as terrible as death.
5. The cessation, absence, or opposite of spiritual life; spiritual and eternal ruin.
6. A fatal plague.
7. A personification, type, or representation of mortality, generally a skeleton holding a scythe.
8. Slaughter; bloodshed.
9. The condition of being dead. ◆ Collateral adjectives: lethal, mortal.
—at death's door Almost dead.
—to be death on Colloq.
1. To dislike intensely enough to kill.
2. To have a special talent for; be very fond of.
—to death Very much: He frightened me to death.
—to put to death To kill; execute. [OE dēath]