killing kill putting to death | the act of terminating a life |
death | the act of killing, he had two deaths on his conscience |
attainder civil death | cancellation of civil rights |
danse macabre dance of death | a medieval dance in which a skeleton representing death leads a procession of others to the grave |
execution executing capital punishment death penalty | putting a condemned person to death |
death adder Acanthophis antarcticus | venomous Australian snake resembling an adder |
death's-head moth Acherontia atropos | European hawkmoth with markings on the back resembling a human skull |
death camp | a concentration camp where prisoners are likely to die or be killed |
death house death row | the cellblock in a prison where those condemned to death await execution |
death knell death bell | a bell rung to announce a death |
death mask | a cast taken from the face of a dead person |
death seat | the car seat beside the driver of an automobile, believed to be the most dangerous place to sit in a car in case of an accident |
electric chair chair death chair hot seat | an instrument of execution by electrocution, resembles an ordinary seat for one person, the murderer was sentenced to die in the chair |
gas chamber death chamber | instrument of execution consisting of a sealed chamber into which poison gas is introduced, used to kill people or animals |
toll bridge | a bridge where toll is charged for crossing |
toll line | a telephone line for long-distance calls |
turnpike toll road | an expressway on which tolls are collected |
price cost toll | value measured by what must be given or done or undergone to obtain something, the cost in human life was enormous, the price of success is hard work, what price glory? |
death toll | the number of deaths resulting from some particular cause such as an accident or a battle or a natural disaster |
toll call | a long-distance telephone call at charges above a local rate |
death warrant | a warrant to execute the death sentence |
death's head | a human skull (or a representation of a human skull) used as a symbol of death |
death knell | an omen of death or destruction |
near-death experience | the experience of being close to death but surviving |
kiss of death | something that is ruinous, if this were known it would be the kiss of death for my political career |
fatality human death | a death resulting from an accident or a disaster, a decrease in the number of automobile fatalities |
wrongful death | a death that results from a wrongful act or from negligence, a death that can serve as the basis for a civil action for damages on behalf of the dead person's family or heirs |
death decease expiry | the event of dying or departure from life, her death came as a terrible shock, upon your decease the capital will pass to your grandchildren |
killing violent death | an event that causes someone to die |
bell toll | the sound of a bell being struck, saved by the bell, she heard the distant toll of church bells |
chocolate chip cookie Toll House cookie | cookies containing chocolate chips |
death squad | a clandestine military or paramilitary team who murder political dissidents or petty criminals (usually with the government's tacit approval) |
toll plaza | an area where tollbooths are located |
Death Valley | a desert area that is part of the Mojave Desert in eastern California and southwestern Nevada, contains the lowest point in North America |
death instinct death wish Thanatos | (psychoanalysis) an unconscious urge to die |
Death | the personification of death, Death walked the streets of the plague-bound city |
tollkeeper tollman tollgatherer toll collector toll taker toll agent toller | someone employed to collect tolls |
death | the permanent end of all life functions in an organism or part of an organism, the animal died a painful death |
necrobiosis cell death | (physiology) the normal degeneration and death of living cells (as in various epithelial cells) |
apoptosis programmed cell death caspase-mediated cell death | a type of cell death in which the cell uses specialized cellular machinery to kill itself, a cell suicide mechanism that enables metazoans to control cell number and eliminate cells that threaten the animal's survival |
brain death cerebral death | death when respiration and other reflexes are absent, consciousness is gone, organs can be removed for transplantation before the heartbeat stops |
death camas zigadene | any of various plants of the genus Zigadenus having glaucous leaves and terminal racemes of mostly white flowers, all are poisonous |
grassy death camas Zigadenus venenosus Zigadenus venenosus gramineus | plant of western North America to Mexico, poisonous especially to grazing animals |
death cap death cup death angel destroying angel Amanita phalloides | extremely poisonous usually white fungus with a prominent cup-shaped base, differs from edible Agaricus only in its white gills |
death benefit | insurance or pension money payable to a beneficiary of a deceased |
advance death benefit | a percentage of death benefits paid directly to policy holders having a short life expectancy (usually months) |
inheritance tax estate tax death tax death duty | a tax on the estate of the deceased person |
toll | a fee levied for the use of roads or bridges (used for maintenance) |
civil death | the legal status of a person who is alive but who has been deprived of the rights and privileges of a citizen or a member of society, the legal status of one sentenced to life imprisonment |
death | the absence of life or state of being dead, he seemed more content in death than he had ever been in life |