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 |
| spiral | flying downward in a helical path with a large radius |
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 |
coil
spiral
volute
whorl
helix | a structure consisting of something wound in a continuous series of loops, a coil of rope |
| 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 |
| spiral volute | ornament consisting of a curve on a plane that winds around a center with an increasing distance from the center |
| spiral bandage | an oblique bandage in which successive turns overlap preceding turns |
spiral ratchet screwdriver
ratchet screwdriver | a screwdriver with a ratchet (so the blade turns in only one direction) and a spiral in the handle (so the blade rotates) with downward pressure on the handle |
| spiral spring | a spring that is wound like a spiral |
| 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 |
| death squad | a clandestine military or paramilitary team who murder political dissidents or petty criminals (usually with the government's tacit approval) |
spiral galaxy
spiral nebula | a galaxy having a spiral structure, arms containing younger stars spiral out from old stars at the center |
| 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 |
| inflationary spiral | an episode of inflation in which prices and wages increase at an increasing rate and currency rapidly loses value |
| deflationary spiral | an episode of deflation in which prices and wages decrease at an increasing rate and currency gains in value |
| spiral | a continuously accelerating change in the economy |
| spiral | a plane curve traced by a point circling about the center but at increasing distances from the center |
helix
spiral | a curve that lies on the surface of a cylinder or cone and cuts the element at a constant angle |