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 |
pace rate | the relative speed of progress or change, he lived at a fast pace, he works at a great rate, the pace of events accelerated |
bargain rate cheapness cut rate cut price | a price below the standard price |
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 |
Postal Rate Commission | an independent federal agency that recommends changes in postal rates |
death squad | a clandestine military or paramilitary team who murder political dissidents or petty criminals (usually with the government's tacit approval) |
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 |
pay rate rate of pay | amount of money received per unit time, women's pay rate is lower than men's |
payment rate rate of payment repayment rate installment rate | the amount of money paid out per unit time |
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) |
tax rate | rate used to calculate tax liability |
inheritance tax estate tax death tax death duty | a tax on the estate of the deceased person |
interest rate rate of interest | the percentage of a sum of money charged for its use |
discount rate discount bank discount | interest on an annual basis deducted in advance on a loan |
bank rate | the discount rate fixed by a central bank |
discount rate | the rate of interest set by the Federal Reserve that member banks are charged when they borrow money through the Federal Reserve System |
base rate | the interest rate set by the Bank of England for lending to other banks |
prime interest rate | the interest rate on short-term loans that banks charge their commercial customers with high credit ratings |