Englishdeath
noun
1 she broke down when she learnt of her father's death:
demise, dying, end, passing, passing away, passing on, loss of life, expiry, expiration, departure from life, final exit, eternal rest;
murder, killing, assassination, execution, dispatch, slaying, slaughter, massacre;
informal snuffing, curtains, kicking the bucket;
Law decease;
rare quietus.
▷antonyms life.
2 their liberation was also the death of their dream:
end, finish, cessation, termination, extinction, extinguishing, collapse, ruin, ruination, destruction, extermination, eradication, annihilation, obliteration, extirpation.
▷antonyms birth.
□ put someone to death
the rebels were captured and put to death:
execute, hang, send to the gibbet/gallows, behead, guillotine, decapitate, electrocute, send to the electric chair, send to the chair, shoot, put before a firing squad, send to the gas chamber, gas, crucify, stone, stone to death;
kill, murder, assassinate, do to death, do away with, take the life of, eliminate, terminate, exterminate, destroy;
informal string up, bump off, polish off, do in, knock off, top, wipe out, take out, croak, stiff, blow away;
North American, informal ice, rub out, waste, whack, scrag, smoke;
literary slay.
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death Oxford Dictionary of English