DEATH

noun see: die Date: before 12th century 1. a permanent cessation of all vital functions ; the end of life, an instance of dying , 2. the cause or occasion of loss of life , a cause of ruin , the destroyer of life represented usually as a skeleton with a scythe, the state of being dead, 5. the passing or destruction of something inanimate , extinction , civil ~ , slaughter , the lie of life in matter ; that which is unreal and untrue ; illusion