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| Main Entry: | dying |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | failing, expiring |
| Synonyms: | at death's door, at end of rope, decaying, declining, disintegrating, done for*, doomed, ebbing, fading, fated, final, giving up the ghost, going, in extremis, moribund, mortal, on last leg, one foot in grave, passing, perishing, sinking, vanishing, withering |
| Antonyms: | creating, developing, growing, living, reviving |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | die |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | pass away; stop living |
| Synonyms: | be no more, be taken, breathe one's last, cease to exist, conk*, croak*, decease, demise, depart, drop, drop off, drown, expire, finish, give up the ghost, go way of all flesh, kick the bucket*, perish, relinquish life, rest in peace, succumb, suffocate |
| Antonyms: | be born, begin, live |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | die |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | wither, dwindle |
| Synonyms: | abate, crumble, decay, decline, degenerate, deteriorate, diminish, disappear, droop, ebb, end, expire, fade, fail, fall, halt, lapse, let up, moderate, molder, pass, peter out*, rankle, recede, retrograde, rot, run down, run out, sink, slacken, stop, subside, vanish, wane, weaken, wilt, bate, break down, dilapidate, ease off, fade away, fade out, fizzle out, go bad, go downhill, lose power, melt away, run low, wear away |
| Antonyms: | develop, flourish, grow, improve |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | death |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | end of life |
| Synonyms: | afterlife, bereavement, casualty, cessation, curtains*, darkness, decease, demise, departure, destruction, dissolution, downfall, dying, end, ending, eradication, euthanasia, exit, expiration, extinction, fatality, finish, grave, grim reaper*, heaven, loss, mortality, oblivion, paradise, parting, passing, quietus, release, repose, ruin, silence, sleep, termination, tomb, annihilation, eternal rest, extermination, finis, necrosis, obliteration, passing over, ruination |
| Antonyms: | being, birth, entity, existence, life, living |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | decay |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | breaking down, collapse |
| Synonyms: | adulteration, atrophy, blight, consumption, corrosion, crumbling, decadence, decline, decomposition, decrease, decrepitude, degeneracy, depreciation, deterioration, dilapidation, disintegration, disrepair, dissolution, downfall, dying, extinction, fading, failing, mortification, rot, rotting, ruin, rust, withering, caries, degeneration, gangrene, impairment, perishing, putrefaction, putrescence, putridity, putridness, ruination, senescence, spoilage, spoilation, wasting, wasting away |
| Antonyms: | development, flourish, growth, improvement, strength, germination, ripening, strengthening |
| Main Entry: | decease |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | death |
| Synonyms: | curtains*, demise, departure, dissolution, dying, grim reaper*, passing, quietus, release, silence, sleep, buying the farm, defunction, passing away, passing over, taps, the end |
| Notes: | decease is the event of dying or departure from life; disease is an impairment of health or a condition of abnormal and harmful functioning |
| Antonyms: | birth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | demise |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fate, usually death |
| Synonyms: | annihilation, collapse, curtains, decease, departure, dissolution, downfall, dying, end, ending, expiration, extinction, failure, fall, final thrill, last out, last roundup, lights out, number's up, passing, quietus, ruin, silence, sleep, termination |
| Antonyms: | birth |
| Main Entry: | done for |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | ruined or defeated |
| Synonyms: | beaten, beaten, broken, dead, defeated, defeated, destroyed, done in, doomed, dying, exhausted, finished, kaput, lost, ruined, shot, through, tired, undone, washed-up*, washed-up, wrecked, ausgespielt, conquered, cooked, dashed, eighty-sixed, foiled, had it, packed-up, sunk, vanquished |
| Antonyms: | accomplished, successful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | expiration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | finish, demise |
| Synonyms: | cessation, close, conclusion, death, decease, departure, dying, end, passing, termination, closing, elapsing, expiry, going, terminus |
| Antonyms: | beginning, birth, commencement, inception, start |
| Main Entry: | fatality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | death, loss; ability to cause such |
| Synonyms: | accident, casualty, disaster, dying, mortality, deadliness, destructiveness, inevitability, lethality, lethalness, necrosis, noxiousness, poisonousness, virulence |
| Antonyms: | birth |
| Main Entry: | starving/starved |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deprived of food |
| Synonyms: | craving, drawn, dying, emaciated, empty, faint, famished, haggard, hungry, peaked, ravenous, skinny, thin, underfed, weakened, could eat a horse, dehydrated, hungering, malnourished, peckish, perishing, pinched, undernourished |
| Antonyms: | full, satisfied, fed |
| Main Entry: | fading |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | declining |
| Synonyms: | dying, evanescent, hazy, growing dimmer, paling |
| Main Entry: | final rest |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | end of life |
| Synonyms: | death, decease, dying, eternal rest, eternal sleep, final sleep, gravepassing, last rest, last sleep |
| Main Entry: | starving |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deprived |
| Synonyms: | craving, drawn, dying, emaciated, empty, faint, famished, haggard, hungry, peaked, ravenous, skinny, starved, thin, underfed, weakened, dehydrated, dog-hungry, flying light, have munchies, hungering, malnourished, peaky, peckish, perishing, pinched, rattleboned, undernourished |
| Antonyms: | full, satiated |
| Main Entry: | mortality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | death |
| Synonyms: | bloodshed, carnage, destruction, dying, extinction, fatality, killing, deadliness, lethality, loss of life |
| Antonyms: | birth, life |
| Main Entry: | poisoned |
| Part of Speech: | adjective2 |
| Definition: | dying of poison |
| Synonyms: | dying, fatally poisoned, succumbing |
| Main Entry: | low |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not feeling well |
| Synonyms: | ailing, debilitated, dizzy, dying, exhausted, faint, feeble, frail, ill, indisposed, poorly, prostrate, reduced, sick, sickly, sinking, stricken, unwell, weak |
| Antonyms: | healthy, strong, well |
| Main Entry: | cease |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | stop, conclude |
| Synonyms: | back off, break off, close, close out, culminate, desist, die, discontinue, drop, end, fail, finish, halt, knock off*, leave off, quit, refrain, shut down, stay, surcease, terminate, wind up*, bring to an end, call it a day, call it quits, come to an end, cut it out, give over, intermit, pack in, quit cold turkey |
| Antonyms: | begin, commence, continue, go, initiate, start, keep on |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | choke |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | smother, block |
| Synonyms: | asphyxiate, bar, check, clog, close, constrict, dam, die, drown, fill, gag, gasp, kill, noose, obstruct, occlude, overpower, retard, squeeze, stifle, stop, stopper, strangle, stuff, stunt, suffocate, suppress, throttle, wring, congest, garrote, gibbet, strangulate |
| Antonyms: | release, unblock, unconstrict |
| Main Entry: | decease |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | pass away; expire |
| Synonyms: | cease, check out*, croak*, deep six, depart, die, drop, go, pass, pass away, pass over, perish, succumb, buy a one-way ticket, call off all bets, cool off, pass on |
| Antonyms: | bear, be born |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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