1. (n.) The cessation of all vital phenomena without capability of resuscitation, either in animals or plants.

2. (v. i.) Total privation or loss; extinction; cessation; as, the death of memory.

3. (v. i.) Manner of dying; act or state of passing from life.

4. (v. i.) Cause of loss of life.

5. (v. i.) Personified: The destroyer of life, -- conventionally represented as a skeleton with a scythe.

6. (v. i.) Danger of death.

7. (v. i.) Murder; murderous character.

8. (v. i.) Loss of spiritual life.

9. (v. i.) Anything so dreadful as to be like death.

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