Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

Death

Nouns
  • death
  • decease, demise
  • dissolution, departure, obit, release, rest, quietus, fall
  • loss, bereavement
  • mortality, morbidity. end of life etc. End, cessation of life etc. [Change from action to rest.] Cessation, loss of life, extinction of life, ebb of life etc. Life. 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
  • Stygian shore. King of terrors, King Death
  • Death
  • doom etc. (necessity) Necessity
  • 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 etc. (disease) Disease
  • death blow etc. (killing) [Destruction of life; violent death.] Killing. necrology, bills of mortality, obituary
  • death song etc. (lamentation) [Expression of pain.] Lamentation.
Verbs
  • 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 etc. 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 etc. (be killed) [Destruction of life; violent death.] Killing.
Adjectives
  • dead, lifeless
  • deceased, demised, departed, defunct, extinct
  • late, gone, no more
  • exanimate, inanimate
  • out of the world, taken off, released
  • departed this life etc. 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 etc. v.
  • moribund, morient
  • hippocratic
  • in articulo, in extremis
  • in the jaws of death, in the agony of death
  • going off
  • 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 etc. (killing) [Destruction of life; violent death.] Killing.
Adverbs
  • post obit
Phrases
  • 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
  • in adamantine chains shall death be bound" [Pope]
  • Spake the grisly Terror" [Paradise Lost]
  • the lone couch of this everlasting sleep" [Shelley]
  • nothing is certain but death and taxes.