Definition of death

• v. i. - The cessation of all vital phenomena without capability of resuscitation, either in animals or plants.
• v. i. - Total privation or loss; extinction; cessation; as, the death of memory.
• v. i. - Manner of dying; act or state of passing from life.
• v. i. - Cause of loss of life.
• v. i. - Personified: The destroyer of life, -- conventionally represented as a skeleton with a scythe.
• v. i. - Danger of death.
• v. i. - Murder; murderous character.
• v. i. - Loss of spiritual life.
• v. i. - Anything so dreadful as to be like death.