• 1. the permanent end of all functions of life in an organism or some of its cellular components
• 2. an instance of this
• 3. a murder or killing
• 4. termination or destruction
• 5. a state of affairs or an experience considered as terrible as death
• 6. a cause or source of death
• 7. a personification of death, usually a skeleton or an old man holding a scythe
• 8. Old English d e ath; related to Old High German t o d death, Gothic dauthus

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