| Main Entry: | euthanasia |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mercy killing |
Synonyms: |
assisted suicide, putting out of misery |
| Main Entry: | death |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | end of life |
Synonyms: |
afterlife, annihilation, bereavement, casualty, cessation, curtains, darkness, decease, demise, departure, destruction, dissolution, downfall, dying, end, ending, eradication, eternal rest, euthanasia, exit, expiration, extermination, extinction, fatality, finis, finish, grave, grim reaper, heaven, loss, mortality, necrosis, obliteration, oblivion, paradise, parting, passing, passing over, quietus, release, repose, ruin, ruination, silence, sleep, termination, tomb |
Antonyms: |
being, birth, entity, existence, life, living |
| Main Entry: | mercy killing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bringing about death for a sufferer |
Synonyms: |
assisted suicide, euthanasia, negative euthanasia, passive euthanasia, playing God, pulling the plug |
| Main Entry: | assisted suicide |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | suicide facilitated by another |
Synonyms: |
euthanasia, mercy killing |
| Main Entry: | death |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
amort, anabiotic, antemortem, asleep, at death's door, at peace, at the last gasp, at the point of death, booked, burial, buried, cinerary, commorient, condemned, dead, dead and gone, dead as a doornail, deadly, deceased, defunct, defunctive, demised, departed, departed this life, dying, eclipsed, eighty, elegiac, encharnelled, exanimate, extinct, fey, funebrial, funerary, funereal, gathered to one's fathers, given over, going, going off, gone, hippocratic, iced, in extremis, in the agony of death, in the jaws of death, inanimate, infernal, intestate, late, launched into eternity, lethal, lifeless, lost, moribund, morient, mortal, mortuary, mortuous, near one's end, no more, numbered with the dead, on one's deathbed, on one's last legs, out of the world, placeparted, post, posthumous, released, sepelible, smabbled, stillborn, taken off, terminal, testate, thanatoid, tottering on the brink of the grave, with one foot in the grave
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| Concept: | Death. |
| Category: | 1. Vitality; vitality in general |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
death; decease, demise; dissolution, departure, obit, release, rest, quietus, fall; loss, bereavement; mortality, morbidity., end of life, cessation of life [more], loss of life, extinction of life, ebb of life [more]., 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; chant du cygne; rigor mortis; Stygian shore., King of terrors, King Death; Death; doom (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 (disease); death blow (killing)., necrology, bills of mortality, obituary; death song (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; 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 (be killed).
-adjectives
dead, lifeless; deceased, demised, departed, defunct, extinct; late, gone, no more; exanimate, inanimate; out of the world, taken off, released; departed this life; 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, gathered to one's fathers, numbered with the dead., dying; moribund, morient; hippocratic; in articulo, in extremis; in the jaws of death, in the agony of death; going off; aux abois; on 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 (killing).
-adverbs
post obit, post mortem.
-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; sic itur ad astra [Vergil]; de mortuis nil nisi bonum; dulce et decorum est pro patria mori [Horace]; honesta mors turpi vita potior [Tacitus]; "in adamantine chains shall death be bound" [Pope]; mors ultima linea rerum est [Girace]; ominia mors aequat [Claudianus]; "Spake the grisly Terror" [Paradise Lost];
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Antonyms: |
life |
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