The personification of death, often a skeleton with a scythe, and one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse.

The cessation of life and all associated processes; the end of an organism's existence as an entity independent from its environment and its return to an inert, nonliving state.

(literally) Until death occurs; so as to cause or result in death. / (degree, idiomatic, hyperbolic) To a great degree; to the greatest degree possible, to excess.

(set phrase, of a contest) That will continue until one of the contestants dies. / (idiomatic) To the utmost degree.

Involving the danger of death; fatal, deadly. / Resembling or pertaining to death; deathly. / (literary) Subject to death; mortal.

Present at the scene when a hunted animal is killed, or (by extension) when anything fails or is destroyed.

(colloquial) Very keen on or good at (something).

An appearance suggestive of death.

plural of death

plural of death squad