the cessation of all vital phenomena without capability of resuscitation, either in animals or plants.-total privation or loss; extinction; cessation; as, the death of memory.-manner of dying; act or state of passing from life.-cause of loss of life.-personified: the destroyer of life, -- conventionally represented as a skeleton with a scythe.-danger of death.-murder; murderous character.-loss of spiritual life.-anything so dreadful as to be like death.