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 |
cruiser police cruiser patrol car police car prowl car squad car | a car in which policemen cruise the streets, equipped with radiotelephonic communications to headquarters |
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 |
squad room | a room in a barracks where soldiers are billeted |
squad room | a room in a police station where members of the force assemble for roll call and duty assignments |
death toll | the number of deaths resulting from some particular cause such as an accident or a battle or a natural disaster |
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 |
flying squad | a mobile group of trained people (police or executives or officials) able to move quickly in the case of emergencies |
police squad squad | a small squad of policemen trained to deal with a particular kind of crime |
team squad | a cooperative unit (especially in sports) |
hit squad | a team of assassins |
death squad | a clandestine military or paramilitary team who murder political dissidents or petty criminals (usually with the government's tacit approval) |
vice squad | a police group to enforce laws against gambling and prostitution |
squad | a smallest army unit |
SWAT team SWAT squad Special Weapons and Tactics team Special Weapons and Tactics squad | a squad of policemen who have been trained to deal with violent and dangerous situations |
firing squad firing party | a squad formed to fire volleys at a military funeral or to carry out a military execution |
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 |
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 |
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 |