📒 the fact of somebody dying or being killed
- the anniversary of his wife’s death
- his sudden/untimely/premature death
- the tragic death of a child
📒 the end of life; the state of being dead
- Police are trying to establish the cause of death.
- The disease can cause death unless the patient is treated promptly.
- Do you believe in life after death?
📒 the stopping of biochemical processes of life in a cell or tissue, in a way that cannot be reversed
- This process becomes irreversible and leads to cell death.
📒 the permanent end or destruction of something
- the death of all my plans
- the death of fascism
- By 1740 European feudalism was in its death throes.
📒 the power that destroys life, imagined as human in form
- Death is often shown in paintings as a human skeleton.
- Death marched in and took him away.
📒 so ill that you may die
- I suppose you won’t be coming to the party if you’re at death’s door!
📒 to worry or upset somebody very much
- Those kids will be the death of me.
📒 to catch a very bad cold
📒 to survive in a situation where you could have died
📒 to risk your life by doing something that you know is dangerous
📒 to fail completely
- The play got terrible reviews and quickly died a death.
📒 to do or perform something so often that people become tired of seeing or hearing it
- That joke's been done to death.
📒 a terrible thing that could happen
- At the last minute the hero saves her from a fate worse than death.
- Getting married seemed a fate worse than death.
- Obeying her parents' wishes for her life seemed a fate worse than death.
📒 to fight until one of the two people or groups is dead, or until one person or group defeats the other
- The soldiers were prepared to fight to the death if they had to.
📒 to use an idea, a story, etc. so often that it is no longer interesting
- The story has been flogged to death in the press.
📒 to frighten somebody very much
- Spiders frighten him to death.
📒 to hold somebody/something very tightly or keep something in a very determined way because you are afraid
- You get a job, then you get a mortgage and then you hang on like grim death to your job to pay off the mortgage.
📒 an event that seems good, but is certain to make something else fail
- An award can be the kiss of death for a writer.
- That TV commercial was the kiss of death to his career as a serious actor.
📒 the possibility or belief that people continue to exist in some form after they die
- Do you believe in life after death?
📒 to look or feel very ill or tired
📒 used to describe a situation that is very important or serious
- You mustn't let anyone know— it's a matter of life and death.
- These talks are a matter of life or death for the factory.
📒 to kill somebody as a punishment
- The prisoner will be put to death at dawn.
📒 extremely; very much
- to be bored to death
- I'm sick to death of your endless criticism.
📒 until somebody is dead