Usually means: Cessation of all biological functions.
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We found 58 dictionaries that define the word death:

General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. death: Merriam-Webster
  2. Death, death: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. death: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. death: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Death, death: Vocabulary.com
  6. Death, death: Wordnik
  7. death: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Death, death: Wiktionary
  9. death: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. death: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. death: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. death: Dictionary.com
  13. death: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. death: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. De'Ath, Death (DC Comics), Death (Discworld), Death (Family Guy), Death (Judas Priest song), Death (Marvel Comics), Death (Marvel comics), Death (South Park), Death (Tarot card), Death (band), Death (book), Death (cigarette), Death (comics), Death (disambiguation), Death (metal band), Death (personification), Death (play), Death (proto-punk band), Death (protopunk band), Death (punk band), Death (song), Death: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Death: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. death: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. death: Rhymezone
  19. death: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. death: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. DEATH: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  22. DEATH, Death: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  23. death: FreeDictionary.org
  24. death: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. death: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. death: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  27. death: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. death: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. death: Webster's New World Law Dictionary
  3. Duhaime's Canadian law dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  5. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  6. Death (medicine), Death (science), death: Legal dictionary
  7. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)
  8. Death and Funeral Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Death (medicine), Death (personification), Death (place), Death (science), death: Encyclopedia

Medicine (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. death: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Death: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  6. Hepatitis C Information Central (No longer online)
  7. Specific Diseases/Disorders (No longer online)
  8. National MCH Center for Child Death Review (No longer online)
  9. Death (medicine), Death (science), death: Medical dictionary
  10. Death: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. DEATH: Acronym Finder
  4. Death: Glossary of Terms in Parapsychology
  5. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  6. death: Idioms
  7. death: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Death: Easton Bible

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. death: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. De'ath, the death: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See deathing as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The cessation of life and all associated processes; the end of an organism's existence as an entity independent from its environment and its return to an inert, nonliving state.
noun:  Execution (in the judicial sense).
noun:  (often capitalized) The personification of death as a (usually male) hooded figure with a scythe; the Grim Reaper.
noun:  (preceded by the) The collapse or end of something.
noun:  (figuratively, especially followed by of-phrase) A cause of great stress, exhaustion, embarrassment, or another negative condition (for someone).
noun:  (figurative) Spiritual lifelessness.
noun:  The personification of death, often a skeleton with a scythe, and one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse.

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