Thesaurus:death

Thesaurus

death

English

Noun

Sense: cessation of life of an organism

Synonyms

• death
• celestial transfer (slang)
• decease
• decomposition
• defunction (obsolete)
• dematerialization
• demise
• dirt nap (slang)
• doom
• exit (often euphemistic)
• expiration
• fatality
• liquidation
• mortality (figuratively)
• quietus
• repose
• sleep of the just (euphemistic, dated)
• sunset
• the big sleep

Antonyms

• (antonym(s) of “beginning of life”): birth
• (antonym(s) of “maintenance of existence”): life

Hyponyms

• Big One

Various

• farm upstate

Sense: collapse or end of something

Synonyms

• crash
• demise
• downfall
• fall

Antonyms

• advent
• beginning    [⇒ thesaurus]
• birth
• genesis
• rise
• start

Various

• devitalization    [⇒ thesaurus]

Sense: figurative: cause of great exhaustion, worry, or the like

Synonyms

• (the) bane (of)
• (the) end (of)

See also

• Thesaurus:die
• Thesaurus:dead
• Thesaurus:cemetery
• Thesaurus:corpse
• Thesaurus:interment
• Category:Death

Further reading

• “360. death” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “death” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.