Death

Synonyms for death
noun end of life

ruination
decease
downfall
dissolution
repose
ending
sleep
euthanasia
extinction
casualty
end
darkness

dying
afterlife
ruin
exit
parting
paradise
mortality
curtains
finish
bereavement
cessation
quietus

demise
fatality
obliteration
tomb
grave
destruction
loss
heaven
eradication
departure
extermination
annihilation

oblivion
expiration
release
termination
passing
silence
grim reaper
finis
necrosis
eternal rest
passing over

Antonyms for death

accomplishment
success
commencement
introduction
consciousness
building
coming
hell

initiation
existence
living
birth
beginning
construction
start
opening

creation
understanding
entrance
arrival
being
entity
life

Concept Thesaurus for word death
1. Vitality; vitality in general
Synonyms – noun

death
departure
quietus
mortality
loss of life
death watch
agonies of death
hand of death
dying day
rigor mortis
Death
euthanasia
sudden death
debt of nature
death blow (killing)
death song (lamentation)

decease
obit
fall
morbidity.
extinction of life
death rattle
shades of death
last breath
dying breath
Stygian shore.
doom (necessity)
break up of the system
violent death
suffocation
necrology

demise
release
loss
end of life
ebb of life [more]
death bed
valley of death
last gasp
dying agonies
King of terrors
“Hell’s grim Tyrant”
natural death
untimely end
asphyxia
bills of mortality

dissolution
rest
bereavement
cessation of life [more]
death warrant
stroke of death
jaws of death
last agonies
chant du cygne
King Death
[Pope].
natural decay
watery grave
fatal disease (disease)
obituary

Synonyms – verbs

die
meet one’s end
resign one’s breath
end one’s life
cease to breathe
drop off
relinquish one’s life
close one’s eyes
drop down dead
be all over with one.
go the way of all flesh
pass in one’s chips [U.S.]
turn to dust
go to one’s last home
make one’s will
come to an untimely end
buy the farm

expire
pass away
resign one’s being
end one’s earthly career
depart this life
pop off
surrender one’s life
fall dead
break one’s neck
pay the debt to nature
hand in one’s checks
join the greater number
cross the Stygian ferry
go to Davy Jones’s locker
step out
catch one’s death
hop the twig

perish
be taken
resign one’s life
breathe one’s last
be no more
lose one’s life
drop into the grave
drop dead
give up the ghost
shuffle off this mortal coil
pass in one’s checks
join the majority
cross the bar
go to the wall
die a natural death
go off the hooks
turn up one’s toes

meet one’s death
yield one’s breath
end one’s days
cease to live
go off
lay down one’s life
sink into the grave
fall down dead
yield up the ghost
take one’s last sleep
hand in one’s chips
come to dust
go to one’s long account
receive one’s death warrant
go out like the snuff of a candle
kick the bucket
die a violent death (be killed)

Synonyms – adjectives

dead
departed
gone
out of the world
dead and gone
dead as a herring
numbered with the dead.
hippocratic
in the agony of death
on one’s death bed
near one’s end
tottering on the brink of the grave.

lifeless
defunct
no more
taken off
dead as a doornail
dead as nits
dying
in articulo
going off
at the point of death
given over
stillborn

deceased
extinct
exanimate
released
dead as a doorpost
launched into eternity
moribund
in extremis
aux abois
at death’s door
booked
mortuary

demised
late
inanimate
departed this life
dead as a mutton
gathered to one’s fathers
morient
in the jaws of death
on one’s last legs
at the last gasp
with one foot in the grave
deadly (killing)

Synonyms – phrases
life ebbs, life fails, life hangs by a thread; one’s days are numbered, one’s hour is come, one’s race is run, one’s doom is sealed; Death knocks at the door, Death stares one in the face; the breath is out of the body; the grave closes over one; sic itur ad astra [Vergil]; de mortuis nil nisi bonum; dulce et decorum est pro patria mori [Horace]; honesta mors turpi vita potior [Tacitus]; “in adamantine chains shall death be bound” [Pope]; mors ultima linea rerum est [Girace]; ominia mors aequat [Claudianus]; “Spake the grisly Terror” [Paradise Lost];
Antonyms

life

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Other adjectives related to death

amort
at death’s door
booked
commorient
dead as a doornail
defunctive
dying
encharnelled
funebrial
given over
hippocratic
in the jaws of death
late
lost
mortuary
numbered with the dead
placeparted
sepelible
terminal
with one foot in the grave

anabiotic
at peace
burial
condemned
deadly
demised
eclipsed
exanimate
funerary
going
iced
inanimate
launched into eternity
moribund
mortuous
on one’s deathbed
post
smabbled
testate

antemortem
at the last gasp
buried
dead
deceased
departed
eighty
extinct
funereal
going off
in extremis
infernal
lethal
morient
near one’s end
on one’s last legs
posthumous
stillborn
thanatoid

asleep
at the point of death
cinerary
dead and gone
defunct
departed this life
elegiac
fey
gathered to one’s fathers
gone
in the agony of death
intestate
lifeless
mortal
no more
out of the world
released
taken off
tottering on the brink of the grave

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