- death
- n.
1) to cause death
2) to face death; to meet one's death
3) to feign death
4) to mourn smb.'s death
5) a certain, sure; heroine's, hero's; lingering; living; natural; painful; sudden, unexpected; untimely; violent death (to die a natural death; to meet a violent death)
6) brain death
7) cot (BE), crib (AE) death
8) death by (death by drowning; fire; firing squad; hanging; lethal injection)
9) at one's death (at her death the estate was broken up)
10) to death (beaten; bored; burnt; frozen; put; shot; starved to death)
11) (misc.) a fight to the death; a death in the family; (sports) sudden death ('an overtime period ending when the first point or goal is scored'); death to tyrants!; in death as in life; till death do us part
* * *[deθ]a death in the familycrib (AE) deathhero'sheroine'sin death as in lifelingeringtill death do us partto meet one's deathunexpecteduntimelydeath to tyrants!(sports) sudden death ('an overtime period ending when the first point or goal is scored')violent death (to die a natural death; to meet a violent death)(misc.) a fight to the death(misc.) a fight to the deatha certainbrain deathto cause deathto face deathto feign deathto mourn smb. 's deathcot (BE)at one's death (at her death the estate was broken up)to death (beaten; bored; burnt; frozen; put; shot; starved to death)death by (death by drowning; fire; firing squad; hanging; lethal injection)
Combinatory dictionary. 2013.