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.

The personification of death, often a skeleton with a scythe, and one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse.

(set phrase, of a contest) That will continue until one of the contestants dies. / (idiomatic) To the utmost degree.

plural of death

(literally) Until death occurs; so as to cause or result in death. / (degree, idiomatic, hyperbolic) To a great degree; to the greatest degree possible, to excess.

Involving the danger of death; fatal, deadly. / Resembling or pertaining to death; deathly. / (literary) Subject to death; mortal.

An appearance suggestive of death.

Present at the scene when a hunted animal is killed, or (by extension) when anything fails or is destroyed.

(colloquial) Very keen on or good at (something).

(idiomatic) About to die; in a life-threatening state of health.