n. Cessation of life; that state of a being, animal or vegetable, in which there is a total and permanent cessation of all the vital functions, In the abstract.n. Actual.n. Figurative or poetical.n. [In poetry and poetical prose death is often personified.n. A general mortality; a deadly plague; a fatal epidemic: as, the black death (which see, below).n. The cessation of life in a particular part of an organic body, as a bone.n. A skeleton, or the figure of a skeleton, as the symbol of mortality: as, a death's head.n. A cause, agent, or instrument of death.n. Imminent deadly peril.n. A capital offense; an offense punishable with death.n. The state or place of the dead.n. The mode or manner of dying.n. Something as dreadful as death.n. In Scripture: The reverse of spiritual life; the mere physical and sensuous life, without any activity of the spiritual or religious nature.n. After physical death, the final doom of those who have lived and died in separation from God and the divine life.n. A slaughtering or killing.n. To be passionately fond of; have a great liking or capacity for: as, he was death on the sherry.n. Mortally; to death.n. Synonyms Death, Decease, Demise. See decease.