release, rest, quietus, fall; loss, bereavement; mortality, morbidity.
end of life &c 67, cessation of life &c 142, loss of life,
extinction of life, ebb of life &c 359.
death warrant, death watch, death rattle, death bed; stroke of
death, agonies of death, shades of death, valley of death, jaws of
death, hand of death; last breath, last gasp, last agonies; dying day,
dying breath, dying agonies; chant du cygne [Fr.]; rigor mortis [Lat.];
Stygian shore.
King of terrors, King Death; Death; doom &c (necessity) 601;
Hell's grim Tyrant [Pope].
euthanasia; break up of the system; natural death, natural decay;
sudden death, violent death; untimely end, watery grave; debt of
nature; suffocation, asphyxia; fatal disease &c (disease) 655; death
blow &c (killing) 361.
necrology, bills of mortality, obituary; death song &c
(lamentation) 839.
V. die, expire, perish; meet one's death, meet one's end; pass away, be
taken; yield one's breath, resign one's breath; resign one's being,
resign one's life; end one's days, end one's life, end one's earthly
career; breathe one's last; cease to live, cease to breathe; depart
this life; be no more &c adj.; go off, drop off, pop off; lose one's
life, lay down one's life, relinquish one's life, surrender one's life;
drop into the grave, sink into the grave; close one's eyes; fall dead,
drop dead, fall down dead, drop down dead; break one's neck; give up
the ghost, yield up the ghost; be all over with one.
pay the debt to nature, shuffle off this mortal coil, take one's
last sleep; go the way of all flesh; hand in one's checks, pass in
one's checks, hand in one's chips, pass in one's chips [U.S.]; join the
greater number, join the majority; come to dust, turn to dust; cross
the Stygian ferry, cross the bar; go to one's long account, go to one's
last home, go to Davy Jones's locker, go to the wall; receive one's
death warrant, make one's will, step out, die a natural death, go out
like the snuff of a candle; come to an untimely end; catch one's death;
go off the hooks, kick the bucket, buy the farm, hop the twig, turn up
one's toes; die a violent death &c (be killed) 361.
Adj. dead, lifeless; deceased, demised, departed, defunct, extinct;
late, gone, no more; exanimate†, inanimate; out of the world, taken off,
released; departed this life &c v.; dead and gone; dead as a doornail,
dead as a doorpost†, dead as a mutton, dead as a herring, dead as nits;
launched into eternity, gone to one's eternal reward, gone to meet
one's maker, pushing up daisies, gathered to one's fathers, numbered
with the dead.
dying &c v.; moribund, morient†; hippocratic; in articulo, in
extremis; in the jaws of death, in the agony of death; going off; aux
abois [Fr.]; one one's last legs, on one's death bed; at the point of
death, at death's door, at the last gasp; near one's end, given over,
booked; with one foot in the grave, tottering on the brink of the
grave.
stillborn; mortuary; deadly &c (killing) 361.
Adv. post obit, post mortem [Lat.].
Phr. 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 [Lat.]
[Vergil]; de mortuis nil nisi bonum [Lat.]; dulce et decorum est pro
patria mori [Lat.] [Horace]; honesta mors turpi vita potior [Lat.]
[Tacitus]; in adamantine chains shall death be bound [Pope]; mors
ultima linea rerum est [Lat.] [Girace]; ominia mors aequat [Lat.]
[Claudianus]; Spake the grisly Terror [Paradise Lost]; the lone couch
of this everlasting sleep [Shelley]; nothing is certain but death and
taxes.