slaughter

en-noun

slaughter (countable and uncountable, plural slaughters)

slaughters (plural)
slaughtre (alternative obsolete)

From Middle English slaughter, from Old Norse *slahtr, later sláttr, from Proto-Germanic *slahtrą, from Proto-Germanic *slahaną. Equivalent to slay + -ter (as in laughter). Eventually derived from Proto-Indo-European *slak- (“to hit, strike, throw”). Related with Dutch slachten, German schlachten, Finnish lahdata (all “to slaughter”).

der

(uncountable) The killing of animals, generally for food.

1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book VI, 1773, The First Six Books of Milton's Paradise Lost, Edinburgh, page 416,
For ſin, on war and mutual ſlaughter bent.

[…] I ſee
Th’ Inſulting Tyrant prancing o’er the Field
Strow’d with Rome’s Citizens, and drench’d in Slaughter,
His Horſe’s Hoofs wet with Patrician Blood.

1712 (date written), [Joseph] Addison, Cato, a Tragedy. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], published 1713, →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 2:

A massacre; the killing of a large number of people.


go the way of the dodo

en-verb

go the way of the dodo (third-person singular simple present goes the way of the dodo, present participle going the way of the dodo, simple past went the way of the dodo, past participle gone the way of the dodo)

goes the way of the dodo (present singular third-person)
going the way of the dodo (participle present)
went the way of the dodo (past)
gone the way of the dodo (participle past)
go the way of the Dodo (alternative)
go the way of the dodo bird (alternative)

/ˈɡəʊ ðə ˌweɪ ə(v)ðə ˈdəʊdəʊ/

/ˈɡoʊ ðə ˌweɪ ə(v)ðə ˈdoʊˌdoʊ/

The dodo (Raphus cucullatus) was a flightless bird endemic to the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius, which is believed to have become extinct in the 17th century due to human activity.

Now that word-processing has caught on, typewriters have gone the way of the dodo.

The Polynesian population, for instance, is on the wane—wearing out—as the Red Man is—as the whale is,—going the way of the dodo, and so many other things.

1854 November 11, “No Motu; or, Reef-rovings in the South Seas. A Narrative of Adventures at the Hawaiian, Georgian and Society Islands. By Edward T. Perkins. New York, Pudney & Russell; London, Trübner & Co.”, in The Athenæum: Journal of Literature, Science, and the Fine Arts, number 1411, London: […] J[ohn] Francis. …, →OCLC, page 1361, column 1:

It is long since that disorderly potentate [the Lord of Misrule] went the way of the Dodo, and hippocras has become almost as mythical as ambrosia; but, once upon a time, they played a prominent part in legal education.

1861 November 23, J. Hamilton Fyfe, “High Days in the Temple”, in The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, volume V, number 126, New York, N.Y.: Leavitt, Trow, & Co., →OCLC, page 610, column 2:

[W]e confess that we should feel a lively satisfaction if we could see the sailor who set his dog at the helpless mass of ovine misery [sheep transported by ship across the English Channel] properly tied down in a conspicuous place on the deck of his ship, stripped to his waist, and then treated to such an allowance of the cat-of-nine-tails (if that animal has not gone the way of the dodo and the great auk) as would make him hate the taste of mutton for the rest of his natural life.

1869 September 18, “Cattle at Sea”, in The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science, and Art, volume 28, number 725, London: […] David Jones, […], →OCLC, page 380, column 1:

We must have game laws for the Arctic seals, and a "close time" for seals as well as for gulls, or else all these animals will go the way of the dodo.

1876 July, “Art. VII.—1. Histoire de France, jusqu’à 1794. Par Jules Michelet, Professeur Suppléant à la Faculté des Lettres. Paris: Hachette. 1860. [et al.]”, in The London Quarterly Review, volume XLVI, number XCII, London: […] [T]he proprietors, […], →OCLC, page 440:

If the silver dollar goes the way of the dodo and the whooping crane, much of the glamour and the polish and the distinction which any entity of the Government has in celebrating its centennial will be gone.

1964 May 27, Mike Mansfield (witness), “Statement of Hon. Mike Mansfield, a U.S. Senator from the State of Montana”, in Treasury–Post Office Departments and Executive Office Appropriations for 1965: Hearings before the Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, United States Senate, Eighty-eighth Congress, Second Session, on H.R. 10532 […], Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 500:

Developed by the same people who invented MP3, mp3PRO is a new format that offers better sound quality than normal MP3s. However, at the time of writing it seems that music fans couldn't care less, and mp3PRO may well go the way of the dodo, the 8-track cartridge and George Michael's solo career.

2003, Gary Marshall, “Music Technology from A to Z”, in The Cut the Crap! Guide to Music Technology, Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire: Artemis Editions, →ISBN, page 110:

[H]istorians have turned from the past to the future, concerned with what will happen to their professional calling in the decades and centuries to come, fearful that in this age of instant communication and gratification, when an era as recent as the sixties can seem to our students as remote as the Wars of the Roses was to us in our college days, that history is going the way of the dodo.

2007, Robert A. Rosenstone, “Space for the Bird to Fly”, in Keith Jenkins, Sue Morgan, Alun Munslow, editors, Manifestos for History, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 11:

For most of the world, the LP has unfortunately gone the way of the dodo. But although LPs are far from the public eye, they've never really gone away.

2009, Daniel Briere, Pat Hurley, “Treating Your Ears to Music”, in Home Theater for Dummies (For Dummies), 3rd edition, Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, part II (Getting Video and Music into Your Theater: Source Devices), page 69:

If you imagine, then, that the travelling journeyman is simply an anachronism – and went the way of the Dodo, or the Luddites – there would, admittedly, be more than a grain of truth in your reaction. But you would be only partly right.

2009, Andrew Price, “Corporate Collateral: Globalization and the Efficiency Delusion”, in Slow-tech: Manifesto for an Overwound World, London: Atlantic Books, →ISBN, page 89:

The semi-formality of that era, along with any sense of attaining even a modicum of comfort in anything but first class [of an aeroplane], has gone the way of the Dodo.

2009 April 1, Greg Stott, “Flying”, in Notes from Beyond the Fringe: Collected Works of Greg Stott, Bloomington, Ind.: iUniverse, →ISBN, page 24:

If your prime broker goes the way of the dodo, you can realistically expect that all cash on the books will be gone in the same instance and in the worst case scenario you will also be unable to liquidate your futures positions for days or perhaps weeks.

2013, Andreas F. Clenow, “Year by Year Review”, in Following the Trend: Diversified Managed Futures Trading, Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley, →ISBN, page 207:

(idiomatic) To go extinct or become obsolete or defunct; to fall out of common practice or use; to become a thing of the past.

to go extinct or become obsolete; to fall out of common practice or use

käydä kuin dodoille (subject in allative)

käydä kuin dinosauruksille (subject in allative)


underworld

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In Hindu scriptures, the four-eyed dogs Śārvara and Śyāma guard the underworld's entrance.

(religion or mythology) The world of the dead, located underneath the world of the living; the afterlife.

тот свет m (tot svet, literally “that world”)


beat a dead horse

beat<,,beat,beaten:beat􂀿colloquial􂁀> a dead horse

beat a dead horse (third-person singular simple present beats a dead horse, present participle beating a dead horse, simple past beat a dead horse, past participle beaten a dead horse or (colloquial) beat a dead horse)

beats a dead horse (present singular third-person)
beating a dead horse (participle present)
beat a dead horse (past)
beaten a dead horse (participle past)
beat a dead horse (colloquial participle past)
flog a dead horse (alternative)

After having shown us three hours of instructional and safety videos, the inspector was simply beating a dead horse by telling us to buckle up as we got into the van.

The library director believes the argument about “professionalism” is a “dead horse we should stop beating.”

1992, William A. Katz, Reference Services and Reference Processes, McGraw-Hill, →ISBN, page 220:

A friend, the political scientist Irving Bernstein, told me that political scientists and historians are inclined to regard the question of objectivity as a dead horse that one should stop beating, and maintained that it is not the scholar but the lay person who has problems with objectivity.

1999, Fredrick Carl Redlich, Hitler: Diagnosis of a Destructive Prophet, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page xii:

I won’t stop beating this dead horse until (male) TV executives stop this sexist practice.

2016, Anthony Livingston Hall, The iPINIONS Journal: Commentaries on the Global Events of 2015, volume XI, iUniverse, →ISBN:

(idiomatic) To persist or continue far beyond any purpose, interest or reason.


pushing up daisies

pushing daisies (alternative)
pushing up the daisies (alternative)

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snuff it

snuff it (third-person singular simple present snuffs it, present participle snuffing it, simple past and past participle snuffed it)

snuffs it (present singular third-person)
snuffing it (participle present)
snuffed it (participle past)
snuffed it (past)

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That cat must have been twenty years old when he finally snuffed it.

1975, Monty Python, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Python (Monty) Pictures Limited
Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who, being naughty in my sight, shall snuff it.

"Is it those mad horse things?" said Ron uncertainly, staring at a point slightly to the left of the Thestral Harry was patting. "Those ones you can’t see unless you’ve watched someone snuff it?"

2003, J.K.Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix:


gas chamber

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There was this boy I sent to the gas chamber at Huntsville here a while back. My arrest and my testimony. He killed a fourteen-year-old girl. Papers said it was a crime of passion but he told me there wasn't any passion to it. Told me that he'd been planning to kill somebody for about as long as he could remember. Said that if they turned him out he'd do it again.

2007, Joel Coen, Ethan Coen, No Country for Old Men (motion picture), spoken by Ed Tom Bell (Tommy Lee Jones):

A sealed chamber in which people are executed with poison gas.

غُرْفَة اَلْغَاز

a sealed chamber in which people are executed with gas


crib death

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(pathology, US) The unexplained death of a baby usually while sleeping.

mort sobtada

the unexplained death of a baby usually while sleeping


lifeless

en-adj

lifeless (comparative more lifeless, superlative most lifeless)

more lifeless (comparative)
most lifeless (superlative)
liveless (alternative obsolete)

From Middle English lyfles, lifles, from Old English līflēas (“lifeless”), equivalent to life + -less. Cognate with West Frisian libbensleas (“lifeless”), Dutch levenloos (“lifeless”), German leblos (“lifeless”), Danish livløs (“lifeless”), Swedish livlös (“lifeless”), Icelandic líflaus (“lifeless”).

a farther paſſion feeds my thoughts,
With ceaſeleſſe and diſconſolate conceits,
Which dies my lookes so liueleſſe as they are,
And might, if my extreames had ful euents,
Make me the gaſtly counterfeit of death.

c. 1587–1588, [Christopher Marlowe], Tamburlaine the Great. […] The First Part […], 2nd edition, part 1, London: […] [R. Robinson for] Richard Iones, […], published 1592, →OCLC; reprinted as Tamburlaine the Great (A Scolar Press Facsimile), Menston, Yorkshire, London: Scolar Press, 1973, →ISBN, Act III, scene ii:


femicide

en-noun

femicide (countable and uncountable, plural femicides)

femicides (plural)
feminicide (alternative)

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From Latin fēm- + -icide, derived from fēmina (“woman”) after the model of homicide, genocide, etc.

One of the most pernicious nuisances of London is the insistence of voluptuaries, who, relying on the respectability of their rank, and the weight of their purse, endevour in open day to seduce young women who attract their attention in the public streets!... This species of delinquency may be denominated femicide; for the monster who betrays a credulous virgin, and consigns her to infamy, is in reality a most relentless murderer!

1801, John Corry, A Satirical View of London, pages 59-60:

But when Mexican feminists hit the streets on Valentine’s Day to denounce their country’s worsening femicide crisis, she saw a chance to ensure her mother’s life and death were remembered.

2020 March 7, Tom Phillips, “'This is our feminist spring': millions of Mexican women prepare to strike over femicides”, in The Guardian:

Mexico is tied with Paraguay, Uruguay and Bolivia as the countries with the fourth-highest rates of femicide in Latin America and the Caribbean, according to the latest data from the United Nations economic commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, at 1.3 such deaths for every 100,000 women in 2023.

2025 May 14, “Mexican beauty influencer shot dead during TikTok live stream”, in The Guardian, sourced from Reuters, →ISSN:

The killing of a woman or girl, originally (figurative) with reference to loss of virtue but now usually (law) specifically because of their gender and especially such a killing by a man motivated by misogyny.


tyrannicide

tyrannicide (countable and uncountable, plural tyrannicides)

From French tyrannicide, from Middle French tyrannicide, from Latin tyrannicīda. Equivalent to tyrant + -cide.


ammazzare

it-verb

ammazzàre (first-person singular present ammàzzo, first-person singular past historic ammazzài, past participle ammazzàto, auxiliary avére)

ammazzàre (canonical)
ammàzzo (first-person present singular)
ammazzài (first-person historic past singular)
ammazzàto (participle past)
avére (auxiliary)
ammazzàre (infinitive)
avére (auxiliary)
ammazzàndo (gerund)
ammazzànte (participle present)
ammazzàto (participle past)
ammàzzo (first-person indicative present singular)
ammàzzi (indicative present second-person singular)
ammàzza (indicative present singular third-person)
ammazziàmo (first-person indicative plural present)
ammazzàte (indicative plural present second-person)
ammàzzano (indicative plural present third-person)
ammazzàvo (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
ammazzàvi (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
ammazzàva (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
ammazzavàmo (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
ammazzavàte (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
ammazzàvano (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
ammazzài (first-person historic indicative past singular)
ammazzàsti (historic indicative past second-person singular)
ammazzò (historic indicative past singular third-person)
ammazzàmmo (first-person historic indicative past plural)
ammazzàste (historic indicative past plural second-person)
ammazzàrono (historic indicative past plural third-person)
ammazzerò (first-person future indicative singular)
ammazzerài (future indicative second-person singular)
ammazzerà (future indicative singular third-person)
ammazzerémo (first-person future indicative plural)
ammazzeréte (future indicative plural second-person)
ammazzerànno (future indicative plural third-person)
ammazzerèi (conditional first-person singular)
ammazzerésti (conditional second-person singular)
ammazzerèbbe (conditional singular third-person)
ammazzerébbe (conditional singular third-person)
ammazzerémmo (conditional first-person plural)
ammazzeréste (conditional plural second-person)
ammazzerèbbero (conditional plural third-person)
ammazzerébbero (conditional plural third-person)
ammàzzi (first-person present singular subjunctive)
ammàzzi (present second-person singular subjunctive)
ammàzzi (present singular subjunctive third-person)
ammazziàmo (first-person plural present subjunctive)
ammazziàte (plural present second-person subjunctive)
ammàzzino (plural present subjunctive third-person)
ammazzàssi (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
ammazzàssi (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
ammazzàsse (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
ammazzàssimo (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
ammazzàste (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
ammazzàssero (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
ammàzza (imperative second-person singular)
ammàzzi (formal imperative second-person-semantically singular third-person)
ammazziàmo (first-person imperative plural)
ammazzàte (imperative plural second-person)
ammàzzino (formal imperative plural second-person-semantically third-person)
ammazzàre (imperative negative second-person singular)
ammàzzi (formal imperative negative second-person-semantically singular third-person)
ammazziàmo (first-person imperative negative plural)
ammazzàte (imperative negative plural second-person)
ammàzzino (formal imperative negative plural second-person-semantically third-person)

Probably from a- + mazza (“club, baton”) + -are, or alternatively possibly related to Latin mactāre, through a Vulgar Latin root *mactiāre, although this is less likely. Compare Sicilian ammazzari, Spanish mazar, Portuguese maçar, Occitan massar, Romansch mazzar, Venetan masar, Friulian maçâ, Istriot masà. See also archaic Italian mattare.

Tu mi stavi ammazzando / Tu mi stavi ammazzando con amore.

1973, “Buonanotte Fratello”, in Alice non lo sa, performed by Francesco De Gregori:

You were killing me / You were killing me with love.


NDE

en-noun

NDE (countable and uncountable, plural NDEs)

Ring sees both the NDE and UFOE as modern day shamanic initiations in which the journeyer (NDEer or UFOer) enters an "imaginal" reality, an alternative reality that coexists with physical reality and that is equally real.

1992, Spirited Women Book Company (publisher), At the Crossroads, page 48:

However, Dr Rommer believed that despite the NDEs being distressing, it still had positive, life-changing effects such as the NDEr becoming less judgemental and feeling an increased love of life and heightened sense of morality.

2014, Penny Sartori, Wisdom of Near-Death Experiences, Watkins Media Limited, →ISBN:

near-death experience
near-death experience#English

(countable) Initialism of near-death experience.


resurrect

en-verb

resurrect (third-person singular simple present resurrects, present participle resurrecting, simple past and past participle resurrected)

resurrects (present singular third-person)
resurrecting (participle present)
resurrected (participle past)
resurrected (past)

(transitive) To restore to a working state.


Atropos

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From Ancient Greek Ἄτροπος (Átropos, “inflexible, not turning”), from ᾰ̓- (ă-, “not”) + -τροπος (-tropos, “turned”).

bor

(Greek mythology) One of the three Fates, or Moirae; a daughter of Zeus and Themis; the cutter of the thread of life, depicted as an old woman. Her Roman counterpart is Morta.


Hermes

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From the Ancient Greek Ἑρμῆς (Hermês), itself of disputed meaning and origin, possibly of non-Indo-European substrate origin or from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“to bind, put together”).

der

(art) A head or bust on a square base, often double-faced.


catafalque

→ English: catafalque (see there for further descendants)

→ German: Katafalk

Borrowed from Italian catafalco, from Vulgar Latin *catafalicum, from Ancient Greek κατά (katá, “down”) + Latin fala (“scaffolding, wooden siege tower”), which is from Etruscan. Doublet of échafaud.

J’avais vu la Place Rouge, quelques jours auparavant, lors des funérailles de Gorki. J’avais vu ce même peuple [...] défiler longuement, interminablement, dans la grande Salle des Colonnes, devant le catafalque.

1936, André Gide, Retour de l'U.R.S.S., Gallimard, →ISBN:

I had seen Red Square, several days before, during Gorky's funeral. I had seen this same people […] file for a long time, interminably, past the catafalque in the great Hall of Columns.

À l’église, Octave s’absorbe dans la contemplation du haut catafalque sur lequel reposent, comme la dépouille mince et dorée d’un grand insecte, l’uniforme et les ordres du défunt.

1974, Marguerite Yourcenar, Souvenirs pieux, Gallimard, →ISBN, page 207:


deathblow

deathblows (plural)
death blow (alternative)

A strike or blow that leads to death, especially a coup de grace.

another nail in one's coffin

something that brings something to an end


what a way to go

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(set phrase) A remark on the unfortunate, exceptional, or unusual nature of somebody's death.


Death

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Death can be seen on a tarot card.

7 And when hee had opened the fourth seale, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
8 And I looked, and behold, a pale horse, & his name that sate on him was Death, and hell followed with him: and power was giuen vnto them, ouer the fourth part of the earth to kill with sword, & with hunger, and with death, and with the beastes of the earth.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Revelation 6:7–8:

Oh cold, cold, rigid, dreadful Death, set up thine altar here, and dress it with such terrors as thou hast at thy command: for this is thy dominion!

1843 December 19, Charles Dickens, “Stave Four. The Last of the Spirits.”, in A Christmas Carol. In Prose. Being a Ghost Story of Christmas, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, page 137:

He had drunk more than was fit for him, and he was singing some light song, when he saw approaching, as he said, the pale horse mentioned in the Revelation, with Death seated as the rider.

1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:

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


Holocaust

en-prop

the Holocaust (usually uncountable, plural Holocausts)

the Holocaust (canonical)
Holocausts (plural)

Tok Pisin: Holokos

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Among Soloway’s congregants injured in the attack was Barbara Steinmetz, an 88-year-old Holocaust survivor who has become one of the most poignant symbols of the attack.

2025 June 5, Grace Gilson, “Boulder’s ‘shocked and traumatized’ Jewish community takes stock of losses and strengths”, in The Times of Israel:

(historical, strictly) The systematic mass murder (genocide) of six million Jews perpetrated by Nazi Germany shortly before and during World War II.

Sjoa

the mass murder of six million Jews by Nazi Germany

Holocaust

the mass murder of 11–14 million people by Nazi Germany


Holocaust

Holocaust (nominative singular)
Holocaustu (genitive singular)
Holocaustowi (dative singular)
Holocaust (accusative singular)
Holocaustem (instrumental singular)
Holocauście (locative singular)
Holocauście (singular vocative)
Holokaust (alternative)

Unadapted borrowing from English Holocaust.

ubor

(historical) Holocaust (mass murder of Jews perpetrated by the Nazi Germany)


Mors

(Roman mythology) The god and personification of death; the Roman counterpart of Thanatos.


Pogrom

de-noun

Pogrom n or m (strong, genitive Pogroms, plural Pogrome)

Pogroms (genitive)
Pogrome (plural)
Pogrom (definite nominative singular)
Pogrome (definite nominative plural)
Pogroms (genitive singular)
Pogrome (definite genitive plural)
Pogrom (dative singular)
Pogromen (dative definite plural)
Pogrom (accusative definite singular)
Pogrome (accusative definite plural)

Borrowed from Russian погро́м (pogróm). First attested in the late 19th century, in more general use since the Russian pogroms of 1905.

pogrom (organized riot against an ethnic or religious minority, especially Jews)


Te

From Coptic ⲧⲏ (tē), from Egyptian d-wA-t:dwAt (“dwꜣt”). Doublet of Duat.

der

<i class="Latn mention" lang="egy">dwꜣt</i>

(Egyptology, Egyptian mythology) The realm of the dead in Egyptian mythology.


COD

en-noun

COD (countable and uncountable, plural CODs)

CODs (plural)
CoD (alternative)
C.O.D. (alternative)

(countable) Initialism of cause of death.


do in

en-verb

do in (third-person singular simple present does in, present participle doing in, simple past did in, past participle done in)

does in (present singular third-person)
doing in (participle present)
did in (past)
done in (participle past)

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By the eighth mile, I was sure that finishing the 10-mile hike would do me in.

We very nearly did in an entire keg of beer that weekend.

So if Sunday you're free why don't you come with me and we'll poison the pigeons in the park
And maybe we'll do in a squirrel or two while we're poisoning pigeons in the park

1959, Tom Lehrer, “Poisoning Pigeons In The Park”, in An Evening Wasted With Tom Lehrer:

Slasher fans rejoiced—for a couple years anyway, until the boom swiftly faded, done in by the same causes that fell so many other eruptions of a style or genre, of any medium: The host of imitators are never as good as what inspired the affection in the first place.

2017 October 27, Alex McLevy, “Making a Killing: The Brief Life and Bloody Death of the Post-Scream Slasher Revival”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 05 Mar 2018:

(transitive, colloquial) To kill or end; to defeat.


dead cat bounce

en-noun

dead cat bounce (plural dead cat bounces)

dead cat bounces (plural)
dead-cat bounce (alternative)

From the idea that a cat dropped from a height might bounce without this indicating any actual life after hitting the ground.

Now, if you look at the chart of a stock that has suffered a collapse, you will see that at the bottom of each drop there is a small uptick, a rise in the price. This uptick, representing the smart money getting out because it knows what is coming, and fools getting in because they don't, is known as the dead cat bounce, so-called because if you drop a dead cat off a skyscraper the cat will bounce, too, but the movement doesn't mean the cat is alive.

1988, Sarah Graves [pseudonym; Mary Squibb], The Dead Cat Bounce (Home Repair is Homicide Series; 1), New York, N.Y.: Bantam Books, →ISBN:

There's this thing called the Dead Cat Bounce. It's a stock market term, I believe. What it's talking about is the fact that even a stock that is essentially worthless and really going nowhere but down for ever can register a slight upward movement, just for a bit, because there is generally a floor for almost everything. The comparison rests on the fact that even when a cat hits the pavement from forty stories high and dies instantly, it'll still bounce back up a little.

2002, Iain Banks, “Dead Cat Bounce”, in Dead Air, London: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN:

Avoid taking a position in stocks that show dead-cat bounces. Those stocks see their price drop at least 15 percent in one session. A stock showing a dead-cat bounce tends to bounce higher and then decline, sometimes suffering additional dead-cat bounces three and six months later (if earnings related[…]).

2013, Thomas N. Bulkowski, “Swinging Tools and Setups”, in Swing and Day Trading: Evolution of a Trader, Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 163:

financial instrument
financial instrument

(trading, idiomatic) A temporary recovery in the price of a financial instrument which has fallen rapidly and is expected to fall further in the long run.

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Dead-Cat-Bounce

temporary recovery in the price of an instrument


sororicide

sororicide (countable and uncountable, plural sororicides)

From Latin sorōricīdium (“killing of one’s sister”), from soror (“sister”) + -cīdium (“killing”). Equivalent to Latin soror (“sister”) + -cide (“killing”).

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Terms related to familicide include filicide (the killing of one's child or children), uxoricide (the killing of one's wife), fratricide or sororicide (the killing of one's brother or sister), avunculicide (the killing of one's uncle), and nepoticide (the killing of one's nephew).

2014, Albert Lee Strickland, “Familicide”, in Michael John Brennan, editor, The A–Z of Death and Dying: Social, Medical, and Cultural Aspects, Santa Barbara, Calif.: Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, pages 205–206:


sororicide

Learned borrowing from Latin sorōricīda.


necrophobia

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From necro- + -phobia, by analogy with necrophilia.

Funerals are ten times worse with necrophobia in addition to grief.


kir

kirowy (adjective)
kir (nominative singular)
kiry (nominative plural)
kiru (genitive singular)
kirów (genitive plural)
kirowi (dative singular)
kirom (dative plural)
kir (accusative singular)
kiry (accusative plural)
kirem (instrumental singular)
kirami (instrumental plural)
kirze (locative singular)
kirach (locative plural)
kirze (singular vocative)
kiry (plural vocative)
kier (alternative Middle Polish)

mort cloth, pall (black material symbolizing mourning)


ethnic cleansing

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Possibly a calque of Serbo-Croatian etničko čišćenje, though this is probably attested later. Popularized by (and still often associated with) the wars in former Yugoslavia during the 1990s; however, versions of the phrase have been attested since the 1860s in various languages (with the earliest attestation translating directly to the phrase being Romanian purificare etnică from 1941) and it probably arose independently on numerous occasions.

clq

These television stations are part of the apparatus and power of Milosevic. This is the apparatus he has used to do the ethnic cleansing in Kosovo.

1999 April 24, Martin Kettle, Alex Brummer, quoting Tony Blair, “The bombing goes on”, in The Guardian:

(euphemistic) The mass expulsion or killing of people belonging to one ethnic group by those of another.


Styx

A bold bad man, that dar'd to call by name / Great Gorgon, prince of darknes and dead night, / At which Cocytus quakes and Styx is put to flight.

1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 13:

For two-and-twenty years he [Doctor Guillotin], unguillotined, shall hear nothing but guillotine, see nothing but guillotine; then dying, shall through long centuries wander, as it were, a disconsolate ghost, on the wrong side of Styx and Lethe; his name like to outlive Cæsar’s.

1837, Thomas Carlyle, chapter IV, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume I (The Bastille), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, book IV (States-General):

Bornless one / As darkness bright / Found not in tongues / Found not in light / Bring down the rain / Drain waters of Styx / Faustian luminary / Redeem blaspheme / Like a day without the dawn / Like a ray void of the sun / Like a storm that brings no calm / I'm most complete yet so undone

2014, “O Father O Satan O Sun!”, performed by Behemoth:

(Greek mythology) The river, in Hades, over which the souls of the dead are ferried by Charon.


spermicidal

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By surface analysis, sperm + -i- + -cide + -al.


ride a horse foaled by an acorn

en-verb

ride<,,rode,ridden> a horse foaled by an acorn

ride a horse foaled by an acorn (third-person singular simple present rides a horse foaled by an acorn, present participle riding a horse foaled by an acorn, simple past rode a horse foaled by an acorn or (obsolete) rid a horse foaled by an acorn, past participle ridden a horse foaled by an acorn)

rides a horse foaled by an acorn (present singular third-person)
riding a horse foaled by an acorn (participle present)
rode a horse foaled by an acorn (past)
rid a horse foaled by an acorn (obsolete past)
ridden a horse foaled by an acorn (participle past)
mount a horse foaled by an acorn (alternative)
ride a horse foaled of an acorn (alternative)

En-au-ride a horse foaled by an acorn.ogg

An allusion to the oak used to construct the gallows.

You'll ride on a horſe that was foal'd of an acron.
That is; the gallows.

1670, John Ray, “Proverbial Phraſes”, in A Compleat Collection of Engliſh Proverbs, 4th edition, published 1768, page 197:

"What ho, my kiddy!" cried Job, "don't be glimflashy; why you'd cry beef on a blater; the cove is a bob cull, and a pal of my own; and moreover, is as pretty a Tyburn blossom as ever was brought up to ride a horse foaled by an acorn."

1828, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, chapter 82, in Pelham: or The Adventures of a Gentleman, page 385:

Fourteen, sir. No age to be riding a horse foaled by an acorn, I can tell you.

2003, Michael Crummey, River Thieves, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, →ISBN, page 272:

A sheep stealer, the mother told the child... and now the man twisted there, riding a horse foaled by an acorn, as the saying went, while the fat Welsh sheep in safety grazed the green pasture all around.

2008, Barbara Ker Wilson, The Lost Years of Jane Austen, Ulysses Press, →ISBN, page 21:

(obsolete, slang) To be hanged on the gallows.


all-a-mort

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How fares my Kate, what ſweeting all a-mort?

c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii], page 223, column 2:

Alternative form of alamort (“dejected”).


morir

Ladino: morir, murir, מוריר

Spanish: morir

Inherited from Latin morīrī, variant of morī. Cognate with Old Galician-Portuguese morrer, morer and Old French morir, murir.

dixo ẏſaẏas a los menſageros q̃l embio el reẏ ezechias aſſi dizredes al nr̃o ſennor q̃ diz el criador Nõ temas delas menazas q̃ oiſt de los uaſſallos del reẏ de ſur. Afe yo trametre uiẽto ⁊ oyra tal palabra. por q̃stornara aſu tr̃a ⁊ ẏl fara morir aeſpada.

c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 54r:

Isaiah said the messengers sent to him by king Hezekiah, “You will tell our master that thus says the Creator, ‘Do not fear the threats you have heard from the servants of the king of the south. Lo, I will send wind and he will hear a rumor such that he will return to his land, and there he will be made to die by the sword.’”

(intransitive) to die; to pass away (cease living)


Killing Fields

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Coined by Cambodian photojournalist Dith Pran in 1984.

coinage

A number of sites in Cambodia where mass slaughter of some 2,000,000 people was carried out by the Khmer Rouge in the late 1970s.

殺戮戰場 /杀戮战场

sites in Cambodia where mass slaughter was carried out


SIDS

The evidence clearly showed that ETS increased the risk of SIDS, but the panel couldn’t decide whether that risk was caused by prenatal smoking, postnatal ETS, or both.

2010, Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway, chapter 5, in Merchants of Doubt:

sudden infant death syndrome
sudden infant death syndrome#English

(medicine, pathology) Acronym of sudden infant death syndrome.


six feet under

"Six feet" refers to the traditional depth to which graves are dug.

My grandparents are six feet under.

(idiomatic, euphemistic) Buried six feet underground; not alive; dead.


fey

English: fey, fay

Scots: fey

Inherited from Old English fǣġe, from Proto-West Germanic *faigī, from Proto-Germanic *faigijaz.

feye (alternative)
fay (alternative)
faie (alternative)
veie (alternative)
veye (alternative)
faye (alternative)
fei (alternative)
vey (alternative)
fæie (alternative Early-Middle-English)
væie (alternative Early-Middle-English)
fæy (alternative Early-Middle-English)
feiȝe (alternative Early-Middle-English)
vaiȝe (alternative Early-Middle-English)
feaye (alternative Early-Middle-English)

Marked, fated for, or destined for death; doomed.

(rare) Tending to cause or leading to death; dangerous.


deadly

en-adj

deadly (comparative deadlier or more deadly, superlative deadliest or most deadly)

deadlier (comparative)
more deadly (comparative)
deadliest (superlative)
most deadly (superlative)

From Middle English dedly, dedlych, dedlich, from Old English dēadlīċ (adjective), from Proto-West Germanic *dauþalīk, from Proto-Germanic *dauþalīkaz (“deadly”, literally “deathly”). By surface analysis, dead + -ly. Cognate with Saterland Frisian dodelk (“deadly”), West Frisian deadlik (“deadly”), Dutch dodelijk (“deadly”), German tödlich (“deadly”), Swedish dödlig (“deadly, fatal, mortal”), Icelandic dauðlegur (“mortal”).
The adverb is from Middle English dedliche, from Old English dēadlīċe (adverb), from the adjective.

cog

But then I had the [massive] flintlock by me for protection. ¶[…]The linen-press and a chest on the top of it formed, however, a very good gun-carriage; and, thus mounted, aim could be taken out of the window[…], and a 'bead' could be drawn upon Molly, the dairymaid, kissing the fogger behind the hedge, little dreaming that the deadly tube was levelled at them.

1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC:

[…] others search for new and deadlier gases, or for soluble poisons capable of being produced in such quantities as to destroy the vegetation of whole continents […]

1949 June 8, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 9, in Nineteen Eighty-Four: A Novel, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC; republished [Australia]: Project Gutenberg of Australia, August 2001, part 2, page 177:

The killing of more than 90 journalists in Iraq in 43 months after the invasion was to mark it out as one of the deadliest conflicts to cover.

2007, Naomi Sakr, Arab Television Today:


sudden infant death syndrome

en-noun

sudden infant death syndrome (uncountable)

(pathology) The sudden and unexplained death of an infant aged one month to one year, normally while sleeping.


kuolema

kuolema (nominative singular)
kuolemat (nominative plural)
kuolema (accusative nominative singular)
kuolemat (accusative nominative plural)
kuoleman (accusative genitive singular)
kuolemat (accusative genitive plural)
kuoleman (genitive singular)
kuolemien (genitive plural)
kuolemain (genitive plural rare)
kuolemaa (partitive singular)
kuolemia (partitive plural)
kuolemassa (inessive singular)
kuolemissa (inessive plural)
kuolemasta (elative singular)
kuolemista (elative plural)
kuolemaan (illative singular)
kuolemiin (illative plural)
kuolemalla (adessive singular)
kuolemilla (adessive plural)
kuolemalta (ablative singular)
kuolemilta (ablative plural)
kuolemalle (allative singular)
kuolemille (allative plural)
kuolemana (essive singular)
kuolemina (essive plural)
kuolemaksi (singular translative)
kuolemiksi (plural translative)
kuolematta (abessive singular)
kuolemitta (abessive plural)
kuolemin (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
kuolemani (nominative singular)
kuolemani (nominative plural)
kuolemani (accusative nominative singular)
kuolemani (accusative nominative plural)
kuolemani (accusative genitive singular)
kuolemani (accusative genitive plural)
kuolemani (genitive singular)
kuolemieni (genitive plural)
kuolemaini (genitive plural rare)
kuolemaani (partitive singular)
kuolemiani (partitive plural)
kuolemassani (inessive singular)
kuolemissani (inessive plural)
kuolemastani (elative singular)
kuolemistani (elative plural)
kuolemaani (illative singular)
kuolemiini (illative plural)
kuolemallani (adessive singular)
kuolemillani (adessive plural)
kuolemaltani (ablative singular)
kuolemiltani (ablative plural)
kuolemalleni (allative singular)
kuolemilleni (allative plural)
kuolemanani (essive singular)
kuoleminani (essive plural)
kuolemakseni (singular translative)
kuolemikseni (plural translative)
kuolemattani (abessive singular)
kuolemittani (abessive plural)
kuolemineni (comitative plural)
kuolemasi (nominative singular)
kuolemasi (nominative plural)
kuolemasi (accusative nominative singular)
kuolemasi (accusative nominative plural)
kuolemasi (accusative genitive singular)
kuolemasi (accusative genitive plural)
kuolemasi (genitive singular)
kuolemiesi (genitive plural)
kuolemaisi (genitive plural rare)
kuolemaasi (partitive singular)
kuolemiasi (partitive plural)
kuolemassasi (inessive singular)
kuolemissasi (inessive plural)
kuolemastasi (elative singular)
kuolemistasi (elative plural)
kuolemaasi (illative singular)
kuolemiisi (illative plural)
kuolemallasi (adessive singular)
kuolemillasi (adessive plural)
kuolemaltasi (ablative singular)
kuolemiltasi (ablative plural)
kuolemallesi (allative singular)
kuolemillesi (allative plural)
kuolemanasi (essive singular)
kuoleminasi (essive plural)
kuolemaksesi (singular translative)
kuolemiksesi (plural translative)
kuolemattasi (abessive singular)
kuolemittasi (abessive plural)
kuoleminesi (comitative plural)
kuolemamme (nominative singular)
kuolemamme (nominative plural)
kuolemamme (accusative nominative singular)
kuolemamme (accusative nominative plural)
kuolemamme (accusative genitive singular)
kuolemamme (accusative genitive plural)
kuolemamme (genitive singular)
kuolemiemme (genitive plural)
kuolemaimme (genitive plural rare)
kuolemaamme (partitive singular)
kuolemiamme (partitive plural)
kuolemassamme (inessive singular)
kuolemissamme (inessive plural)
kuolemastamme (elative singular)
kuolemistamme (elative plural)
kuolemaamme (illative singular)
kuolemiimme (illative plural)
kuolemallamme (adessive singular)
kuolemillamme (adessive plural)
kuolemaltamme (ablative singular)
kuolemiltamme (ablative plural)
kuolemallemme (allative singular)
kuolemillemme (allative plural)
kuolemanamme (essive singular)
kuoleminamme (essive plural)
kuolemaksemme (singular translative)
kuolemiksemme (plural translative)
kuolemattamme (abessive singular)
kuolemittamme (abessive plural)
kuoleminemme (comitative plural)
kuolemanne (nominative singular)
kuolemanne (nominative plural)
kuolemanne (accusative nominative singular)
kuolemanne (accusative nominative plural)
kuolemanne (accusative genitive singular)
kuolemanne (accusative genitive plural)
kuolemanne (genitive singular)
kuolemienne (genitive plural)
kuolemainne (genitive plural rare)
kuolemaanne (partitive singular)
kuolemianne (partitive plural)
kuolemassanne (inessive singular)
kuolemissanne (inessive plural)
kuolemastanne (elative singular)
kuolemistanne (elative plural)
kuolemaanne (illative singular)
kuolemiinne (illative plural)
kuolemallanne (adessive singular)
kuolemillanne (adessive plural)
kuolemaltanne (ablative singular)
kuolemiltanne (ablative plural)
kuolemallenne (allative singular)
kuolemillenne (allative plural)
kuolemananne (essive singular)
kuoleminanne (essive plural)
kuolemaksenne (singular translative)
kuolemiksenne (plural translative)
kuolemattanne (abessive singular)
kuolemittanne (abessive plural)
kuoleminenne (comitative plural)
kuolemansa (nominative singular)
kuolemansa (nominative plural)
kuolemansa (accusative nominative singular)
kuolemansa (accusative nominative plural)
kuolemansa (accusative genitive singular)
kuolemansa (accusative genitive plural)
kuolemansa (genitive singular)
kuolemiensa (genitive plural)
kuolemainsa (genitive plural rare)
kuolemaansa (partitive singular)
kuolemiaan (partitive plural)
kuolemiansa (partitive plural)
kuolemassaan (inessive singular)
kuolemassansa (inessive singular)
kuolemissaan (inessive plural)
kuolemissansa (inessive plural)
kuolemastaan (elative singular)
kuolemastansa (elative singular)
kuolemistaan (elative plural)
kuolemistansa (elative plural)
kuolemaansa (illative singular)
kuolemiinsa (illative plural)
kuolemallaan (adessive singular)
kuolemallansa (adessive singular)
kuolemillaan (adessive plural)
kuolemillansa (adessive plural)
kuolemaltaan (ablative singular)
kuolemaltansa (ablative singular)
kuolemiltaan (ablative plural)
kuolemiltansa (ablative plural)
kuolemalleen (allative singular)
kuolemallensa (allative singular)
kuolemilleen (allative plural)
kuolemillensa (allative plural)
kuolemanaan (essive singular)
kuolemanansa (essive singular)
kuoleminaan (essive plural)
kuoleminansa (essive plural)
kuolemakseen (singular translative)
kuolemaksensa (singular translative)
kuolemikseen (plural translative)
kuolemiksensa (plural translative)
kuolemattaan (abessive singular)
kuolemattansa (abessive singular)
kuolemittaan (abessive plural)
kuolemittansa (abessive plural)
kuolemineen (comitative plural)
kuoleminensa (comitative plural)

From Proto-Finnic *koolëma, equivalent to kuolla (“to die”) + -ma.

tuomita kuolemaan

to sentence to death / to condemn to death

olla kuolemaisillaan

olla kuoleman kielissä

tehdä kuolemaa

Hän on kuolemankalpea.


kuolla

kuolen (first-person indicative present singular)
en kuole (first-person indicative negative present singular)
olen kuollut (first-person indicative perfect singular)
en ole kuollut (first-person indicative negative perfect singular)
kuolet (indicative present second-person singular)
et kuole (indicative negative present second-person singular)
olet kuollut (indicative perfect second-person singular)
et ole kuollut (indicative negative perfect second-person singular)
kuolee (indicative present singular third-person)
ei kuole (indicative negative present singular third-person)
on kuollut (indicative perfect singular third-person)
ei ole kuollut (indicative negative perfect singular third-person)
kuolemme (first-person indicative plural present)
emme kuole (first-person indicative negative plural present)
olemme kuolleet (first-person indicative perfect plural)
emme ole kuolleet (first-person indicative negative perfect plural)
kuolette (indicative plural present second-person)
ette kuole (indicative negative plural present second-person)
olette kuolleet (indicative perfect plural second-person)
ette ole kuolleet (indicative negative perfect plural second-person)
kuolevat (indicative plural present third-person)
eivät kuole (indicative negative plural present third-person)
ovat kuolleet (indicative perfect plural third-person)
eivät ole kuolleet (indicative negative perfect plural third-person)
kuollaan (indicative passive present)
ei kuolla (indicative negative passive present)
on kuoltu (indicative passive perfect)
ei ole kuoltu (indicative negative passive perfect)
kuolin (first-person indicative past singular)
en kuollut (first-person indicative negative past singular)
olin kuollut (first-person indicative pluperfect singular)
en ollut kuollut (first-person indicative negative pluperfect singular)
kuolit (indicative past second-person singular)
et kuollut (indicative negative past second-person singular)
olit kuollut (indicative pluperfect second-person singular)
et ollut kuollut (indicative negative pluperfect second-person singular)
kuoli (indicative past singular third-person)
ei kuollut (indicative negative past singular third-person)
oli kuollut (indicative pluperfect singular third-person)
ei ollut kuollut (indicative negative pluperfect singular third-person)
kuolimme (first-person indicative past plural)
emme kuolleet (first-person indicative negative past plural)
olimme kuolleet (first-person indicative pluperfect plural)
emme olleet kuolleet (first-person indicative negative pluperfect plural)
kuolitte (indicative past plural second-person)
ette kuolleet (indicative negative past plural second-person)
olitte kuolleet (indicative pluperfect plural second-person)
ette olleet kuolleet (indicative negative pluperfect plural second-person)
kuolivat (indicative past plural third-person)
eivät kuolleet (indicative negative past plural third-person)
olivat kuolleet (indicative pluperfect plural third-person)
eivät olleet kuolleet (indicative negative pluperfect plural third-person)
kuoltiin (indicative passive past)
ei kuoltu (indicative negative passive past)
oli kuoltu (indicative passive pluperfect)
ei ollut kuoltu (indicative negative passive pluperfect)
kuolisin (conditional first-person present singular)
en kuolisi (conditional first-person negative present singular)
olisin kuollut (conditional first-person perfect singular)
en olisi kuollut (conditional first-person negative perfect singular)
kuolisit (conditional present second-person singular)
et kuolisi (conditional negative present second-person singular)
olisit kuollut (conditional perfect second-person singular)
et olisi kuollut (conditional negative perfect second-person singular)
kuolisi (conditional present singular third-person)
ei kuolisi (conditional negative present singular third-person)
olisi kuollut (conditional perfect singular third-person)
ei olisi kuollut (conditional negative perfect singular third-person)
kuolisimme (conditional first-person plural present)
emme kuolisi (conditional first-person negative plural present)
olisimme kuolleet (conditional first-person perfect plural)
emme olisi kuolleet (conditional first-person negative perfect plural)
kuolisitte (conditional plural present second-person)
ette kuolisi (conditional negative plural present second-person)
olisitte kuolleet (conditional perfect plural second-person)
ette olisi kuolleet (conditional negative perfect plural second-person)
kuolisivat (conditional plural present third-person)
eivät kuolisi (conditional negative plural present third-person)
olisivat kuolleet (conditional perfect plural third-person)
eivät olisi kuolleet (conditional negative perfect plural third-person)
kuoltaisiin (conditional passive present)
ei kuoltaisi (conditional negative passive present)
olisi kuoltu (conditional passive perfect)
ei olisi kuoltu (conditional negative passive perfect)
kuole (imperative present second-person singular)
älä kuole (imperative negative present second-person singular)
kuolkoon (imperative present singular third-person)
älköön kuolko (imperative negative present singular third-person)
olkoon kuollut (imperative perfect singular third-person)
älköön olko kuollut (imperative negative perfect singular third-person)
kuolkaamme (first-person imperative plural present)
älkäämme kuolko (first-person imperative negative plural present)
kuolkaa (imperative plural present second-person)
älkää kuolko (imperative negative plural present second-person)
kuolkoot (imperative plural present third-person)
älkööt kuolko (imperative negative plural present third-person)
olkoot kuolleet (imperative perfect plural third-person)
älkööt olko kuolleet (imperative negative perfect plural third-person)
kuoltakoon (imperative passive present)
älköön kuoltako (imperative negative passive present)
olkoon kuoltu (imperative passive perfect)
älköön olko kuoltu (imperative negative passive perfect)
kuollen (first-person potential present singular)
en kuolle (first-person negative potential present singular)
lienen kuollut (first-person perfect potential singular)
en liene kuollut (first-person negative perfect potential singular)
kuollet (potential present second-person singular)
et kuolle (negative potential present second-person singular)
lienet kuollut (perfect potential second-person singular)
et liene kuollut (negative perfect potential second-person singular)
kuollee (potential present singular third-person)
ei kuolle (negative potential present singular third-person)
lienee kuollut (perfect potential singular third-person)
ei liene kuollut (negative perfect potential singular third-person)
kuollemme (first-person plural potential present)
emme kuolle (first-person negative plural potential present)
lienemme kuolleet (first-person perfect plural potential)
emme liene kuolleet (first-person negative perfect plural potential)
kuollette (plural potential present second-person)
ette kuolle (negative plural potential present second-person)
lienette kuolleet (perfect plural potential second-person)
ette liene kuolleet (negative perfect plural potential second-person)
kuollevat (plural potential present third-person)
eivät kuolle (negative plural potential present third-person)
lienevät kuolleet (perfect plural potential third-person)
eivät liene kuolleet (negative perfect plural potential third-person)
kuoltaneen (passive potential present)
ei kuoltane (negative passive potential present)
lienee kuoltu (passive perfect potential)
ei liene kuoltu (negative passive perfect potential)
kuolla (infinitive infinitive-i)
kuoleva (active participle present)
kuoltava (participle passive present)
kuollakseni (first-person possessive singular)
kuollaksemme (first-person plural possessive)
kuollaksesi (possessive second-person singular)
kuollaksenne (plural possessive second-person)
kuollakseen (possessive third-person)
kuollaksensa (possessive third-person)
kuollut (infinitive-i-long past)
kuoltu (infinitive-i-long past)
kuollessa (inessive second-person)
kuoltaessa (inessive second-person)
kuolema (agent)
kuollessani (first-person possessive singular)
kuollessamme (first-person plural possessive)
kuollessasi (possessive second-person singular)
kuollessanne (plural possessive second-person)
kuollessaan (possessive third-person)
kuollessansa (possessive third-person)
kuolematon (inessive negative second-person)
kuollen (instructive second-person)
kuolemassa (inessive third-person)
kuolemasta (elative third-person)
kuolemaan (illative third-person)
kuolemalla (adessive third-person)
kuolematta (abessive third-person)
kuoleman (instructive third-person)
kuoltaman (instructive third-person)
kuoleminen (fourth-person noun-from-verb)
kuolemaisillani (first-person possessive singular)
kuolemaisillamme (first-person plural possessive)
kuolemaisillasi (possessive second-person singular)
kuolemaisillanne (plural possessive second-person)
kuolemaisillaan (possessive third-person)
kuolemaisillansa (possessive third-person)

→ Swedish: (slang) kola (“to die”)

From Proto-Finnic *kooldak, from Proto-Uralic *kale-. Cognates include Erzya куломс (kuloms), Northern Mansi хо̄луӈкве (hōluňkve) and Hungarian hal.

olla kuolemaisillaan

Isoäitini kuoli syöpään.

Kuolen nälkään.

(intransitive) to die [with illative ‘of/from’]


kuolevainen

fi-adj

kuolevainen (comparative kuolevaisempi, superlative kuolevaisin)

kuolevaisempi (comparative)
kuolevaisin (superlative)
kuolevainen (nominative singular)
kuolevaiset (nominative plural)
kuolevainen (accusative nominative singular)
kuolevaiset (accusative nominative plural)
kuolevaisen (accusative genitive singular)
kuolevaiset (accusative genitive plural)
kuolevaisen (genitive singular)
kuolevaisten (genitive plural)
kuolevaisien (genitive plural)
kuolevaista (partitive singular)
kuolevaisia (partitive plural)
kuolevaisessa (inessive singular)
kuolevaisissa (inessive plural)
kuolevaisesta (elative singular)
kuolevaisista (elative plural)
kuolevaiseen (illative singular)
kuolevaisiin (illative plural)
kuolevaisella (adessive singular)
kuolevaisilla (adessive plural)
kuolevaiselta (ablative singular)
kuolevaisilta (ablative plural)
kuolevaiselle (allative singular)
kuolevaisille (allative plural)
kuolevaisena (essive singular)
kuolevaisina (essive plural)
kuolevaiseksi (singular translative)
kuolevaisiksi (plural translative)
kuolevaisetta (abessive singular)
kuolevaisitta (abessive plural)
kuolevaisin (instructive plural)
kuolevaisine (comitative plural)
kuolevaiseni (nominative singular)
kuolevaiseni (nominative plural)
kuolevaiseni (accusative nominative singular)
kuolevaiseni (accusative nominative plural)
kuolevaiseni (accusative genitive singular)
kuolevaiseni (accusative genitive plural)
kuolevaiseni (genitive singular)
kuolevaisteni (genitive plural)
kuolevaisieni (genitive plural)
kuolevaistani (partitive singular)
kuolevaisiani (partitive plural)
kuolevaisessani (inessive singular)
kuolevaisissani (inessive plural)
kuolevaisestani (elative singular)
kuolevaisistani (elative plural)
kuolevaiseeni (illative singular)
kuolevaisiini (illative plural)
kuolevaisellani (adessive singular)
kuolevaisillani (adessive plural)
kuolevaiseltani (ablative singular)
kuolevaisiltani (ablative plural)
kuolevaiselleni (allative singular)
kuolevaisilleni (allative plural)
kuolevaisenani (essive singular)
kuolevaisinani (essive plural)
kuolevaisekseni (singular translative)
kuolevaisikseni (plural translative)
kuolevaisettani (abessive singular)
kuolevaisittani (abessive plural)
kuolevaisineni (comitative plural)
kuolevaisesi (nominative singular)
kuolevaisesi (nominative plural)
kuolevaisesi (accusative nominative singular)
kuolevaisesi (accusative nominative plural)
kuolevaisesi (accusative genitive singular)
kuolevaisesi (accusative genitive plural)
kuolevaisesi (genitive singular)
kuolevaistesi (genitive plural)
kuolevaisiesi (genitive plural)
kuolevaistasi (partitive singular)
kuolevaisiasi (partitive plural)
kuolevaisessasi (inessive singular)
kuolevaisissasi (inessive plural)
kuolevaisestasi (elative singular)
kuolevaisistasi (elative plural)
kuolevaiseesi (illative singular)
kuolevaisiisi (illative plural)
kuolevaisellasi (adessive singular)
kuolevaisillasi (adessive plural)
kuolevaiseltasi (ablative singular)
kuolevaisiltasi (ablative plural)
kuolevaisellesi (allative singular)
kuolevaisillesi (allative plural)
kuolevaisenasi (essive singular)
kuolevaisinasi (essive plural)
kuolevaiseksesi (singular translative)
kuolevaisiksesi (plural translative)
kuolevaisettasi (abessive singular)
kuolevaisittasi (abessive plural)
kuolevaisinesi (comitative plural)
kuolevaisemme (nominative singular)
kuolevaisemme (nominative plural)
kuolevaisemme (accusative nominative singular)
kuolevaisemme (accusative nominative plural)
kuolevaisemme (accusative genitive singular)
kuolevaisemme (accusative genitive plural)
kuolevaisemme (genitive singular)
kuolevaistemme (genitive plural)
kuolevaisiemme (genitive plural)
kuolevaistamme (partitive singular)
kuolevaisiamme (partitive plural)
kuolevaisessamme (inessive singular)
kuolevaisissamme (inessive plural)
kuolevaisestamme (elative singular)
kuolevaisistamme (elative plural)
kuolevaiseemme (illative singular)
kuolevaisiimme (illative plural)
kuolevaisellamme (adessive singular)
kuolevaisillamme (adessive plural)
kuolevaiseltamme (ablative singular)
kuolevaisiltamme (ablative plural)
kuolevaisellemme (allative singular)
kuolevaisillemme (allative plural)
kuolevaisenamme (essive singular)
kuolevaisinamme (essive plural)
kuolevaiseksemme (singular translative)
kuolevaisiksemme (plural translative)
kuolevaisettamme (abessive singular)
kuolevaisittamme (abessive plural)
kuolevaisinemme (comitative plural)
kuolevaisenne (nominative singular)
kuolevaisenne (nominative plural)
kuolevaisenne (accusative nominative singular)
kuolevaisenne (accusative nominative plural)
kuolevaisenne (accusative genitive singular)
kuolevaisenne (accusative genitive plural)
kuolevaisenne (genitive singular)
kuolevaistenne (genitive plural)
kuolevaisienne (genitive plural)
kuolevaistanne (partitive singular)
kuolevaisianne (partitive plural)
kuolevaisessanne (inessive singular)
kuolevaisissanne (inessive plural)
kuolevaisestanne (elative singular)
kuolevaisistanne (elative plural)
kuolevaiseenne (illative singular)
kuolevaisiinne (illative plural)
kuolevaisellanne (adessive singular)
kuolevaisillanne (adessive plural)
kuolevaiseltanne (ablative singular)
kuolevaisiltanne (ablative plural)
kuolevaisellenne (allative singular)
kuolevaisillenne (allative plural)
kuolevaisenanne (essive singular)
kuolevaisinanne (essive plural)
kuolevaiseksenne (singular translative)
kuolevaisiksenne (plural translative)
kuolevaisettanne (abessive singular)
kuolevaisittanne (abessive plural)
kuolevaisinenne (comitative plural)
kuolevaisensa (nominative singular)
kuolevaisensa (nominative plural)
kuolevaisensa (accusative nominative singular)
kuolevaisensa (accusative nominative plural)
kuolevaisensa (accusative genitive singular)
kuolevaisensa (accusative genitive plural)
kuolevaisensa (genitive singular)
kuolevaistensa (genitive plural)
kuolevaisiensa (genitive plural)
kuolevaistaan (partitive singular)
kuolevaistansa (partitive singular)
kuolevaisiaan (partitive plural)
kuolevaisiansa (partitive plural)
kuolevaisessaan (inessive singular)
kuolevaisessansa (inessive singular)
kuolevaisissaan (inessive plural)
kuolevaisissansa (inessive plural)
kuolevaisestaan (elative singular)
kuolevaisestansa (elative singular)
kuolevaisistaan (elative plural)
kuolevaisistansa (elative plural)
kuolevaiseensa (illative singular)
kuolevaisiinsa (illative plural)
kuolevaisellaan (adessive singular)
kuolevaisellansa (adessive singular)
kuolevaisillaan (adessive plural)
kuolevaisillansa (adessive plural)
kuolevaiseltaan (ablative singular)
kuolevaiseltansa (ablative singular)
kuolevaisiltaan (ablative plural)
kuolevaisiltansa (ablative plural)
kuolevaiselleen (allative singular)
kuolevaisellensa (allative singular)
kuolevaisilleen (allative plural)
kuolevaisillensa (allative plural)
kuolevaisenaan (essive singular)
kuolevaisenansa (essive singular)
kuolevaisinaan (essive plural)
kuolevaisinansa (essive plural)
kuolevaisekseen (singular translative)
kuolevaiseksensa (singular translative)
kuolevaisikseen (plural translative)
kuolevaisiksensa (plural translative)
kuolevaisettaan (abessive singular)
kuolevaisettansa (abessive singular)
kuolevaisittaan (abessive plural)
kuolevaisittansa (abessive plural)
kuolevaisineen (comitative plural)
kuolevaisinensa (comitative plural)


бар

From Proto-Turkic *bar-. Compare Kyrgyz баруу (baruu).


necromantic

necromantics (plural)
necromantick (alternative)

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With all the necromantics of their art.

1745, [Edward Young], “Night the Eighth. Virtue’s Apology: Or, The Man of the World Answer’d. In which are Considered, the Love of this Life; the Ambition and Pleasures, with the Wit and Wisdom of the World.”, in The Complaint: Or, Night-Thoughts on Life, Death, and Immortality, London: […] G. Hawkins, […], →OCLC:


obsequy

obsequies (plural)
obsequie (alternative obsolete)

From Middle English obseque, from Old French obseque, osseque, from Latin obsequiī (“complaisant, yielding”), alteration of obsequia (“compliance”) (by confusion, in association with exsequia (“funeral rites”), from exsequī (“follow or accompany to the grave”)).

uder

And to the ladyes he reſtored agayn / The bodyes of her huſbandes yͭ were ſlayn / To done obſequies as tho was the gyſe.

1478, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales:

And to the ladies he restored again / The bodies of their husbands that were slain / To do obsequies as then was the custom.

It was a rather ghastly ceremony, but it was the only means in our power of showing our respect to the faithful dead and of celebrating his obsequies.

1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:

But, to-day, there were no obsequies to observe at all.

1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 13

(chiefly in the plural) A funeral rite or service.


floater

From float + -er (suffix forming agent nouns).

paikanvaihtaja

person without a fixed or lasting affiliation, position, or role

kelluva esine

thing which physically floats in a gas or liquid

leijuri

thing which moves from place to place, as if floating

A dock worker saw him floating against a dock pier and called the police. Condition of the body they thought a floater that had been hit by a boat and cut by the prop.

2017 September 18, E. J. Stauffer, chapter 3, in The Drowning, Bloomington, Ind.: Archway Publishing, →ISBN:

A person who physically floats in a gas or liquid.

(law enforcement, slang) A corpse floating in a body of water.


beten

enm-verb

beten (third-person singular simple present beteth, present participle betynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative bette, past participle bet)

beteth (present singular third-person)
betynge (participle present)
bette (first-person indicative past singular third-person)
bet (participle past)
beten (infinitive)
to beten (infinitive)
bete (infinitive)
bete (first-person present singular)
bette (first-person past singular)
bete (first-person past singular)
betest (present second-person singular)
bettest (past second-person singular)
betest (past second-person singular)
beteth (present singular third-person)
bette (past singular third-person)
bete (past singular third-person)
bete (present singular subjunctive)
bette (past singular subjunctive)
bete (past singular subjunctive)
bete (imperative present singular)
beten (plural present)
bete (plural present)
betten (past plural)
bette (past plural)
beten (past plural)
bete (past plural)
beteth (imperative plural present)
bete (imperative plural present)
betynge (participle present)
betende (participle present)
bet (participle past)
ybet (participle past)
beete (alternative)
bete (alternative)
bett (alternative)
betten (alternative)
beytt (alternative)
betenn (alternative Early-Middle-English)
beote (alternative Early-Middle-English)

English: beet (dialectal, obsolete)

Scots: bete, beit, beet, beat

Inherited from Old English bētan, from Proto-West Germanic *bōtijan, from Proto-Germanic *bōtijaną; some forms are remodelled on bet (“better”).


inquest

From Middle English enquest, from Old French enqueste (Modern French enquête), from Vulgar Latin inquirere, or from Medieval Latin inquesta < in + Latin quaesita.

The inquest on keeper Davidson was duly held, and at the commencement seemed likely to cause Tony Palliser less anxiety than he had expected.

1907 January, Harold Bindloss, chapter 4, in The Dust of Conflict, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: McLeod & Allen, →OCLC:

However, the 'accidental death' verdict of the jury in the inquest into the Croydon tram accident of November 2016 is the latest episode in a saga that seems likely to prevent the full story of this eminently preventable disaster from ever being exposed.

2021 August 25, Christian Wolmar, “Croydon tram crash: the questions haven't been answered”, in RAIL, number 938, page 58:

A formal investigation, often held before a jury, especially one into the cause of a death

kuolemansyyn selvittämislautakunta

jury hearing an inquest into the cause of death

kuolinselvitys

result of an inquest into the cause of death


post mortem

From Latin post (“afterwards”) + mortem, from mors (“death”).

postmortem (alternative)
post-mortem (alternative)

The hospice's standard procedure for post mortem room cleaning looks very thorough.

We shouldn't let these post mortem injuries distract us while looking for the cause of death.

The post mortem timeline is incomplete.

Having been inflicted or having occurred after death.


post mortem

The injuries were found to have been caused post mortem.

հետմահու

occurring after death — see also posthumously

по́сле сме́рти (pósle smérti, literally “after death”)

пі́сля сме́рті (píslja smérti, literally “after death”)


post mortem

post mortems (plural)
postmortem (alternative)
post-mortem (alternative)

Nor had the post mortem on Newson's body revealed any illness or other physical condition that might have prevented him from applying the brake, although after four days in the oven-like heat of the wreckage, the body was so badly decomposed as to make any reliable post mortem results unlikely.

2025 February 19, Mike Lewis, “Tragedy at Moorgate”, in RAIL, number 1029, page 59, about the Moorgate tube crash:

An investigation of a corpse to determine the cause of death.

դիահերձում

investigation of a corpse to determine the cause of death; an autopsy


post mortem

Unadapted borrowing from Latin post mortem.

ubor

(idiomatic, literary) posthumously, post mortem


megadeath

PIE word
 *méǵh₂s
From mega- (prefix meaning ‘one million; very large, great’) + death.

affix

One million deaths, especially as a unit of measure for estimating deaths due to nuclear warfare.

megamort

one million deaths, especially as a unit of measure for estimating deaths due to nuclear warfare


cwellan

cwellan (infinitive)
cwellenne (infinitive)
cwelle (first-person present singular)
cwealde (first-person past singular)
cwelest (present second-person singular)
cwealdest (past second-person singular)
cweleþ (present singular third-person)
cwealde (past singular third-person)
cwellaþ (plural present)
cwealdon (past plural)
cwelle (present singular)
cwealde (past singular)
cwellen (plural present)
cwealden (past plural)
cwele (imperative past present singular)
cwellaþ (imperative past plural present)
cwellende (imperative present)
cweald (imperative past)
ġecweald (imperative past)

desctree

Middle English: quellen, cwellen, quell, quelle, qwell, qwelle, cwellenn (Ormulum)
English: quell
Scots: quell, quel

From Proto-West Germanic *kwalljan, from Proto-Germanic *kwaljaną (“to torment”). Cognates include Old Saxon quellian, Middle Dutch quellen (Dutch kwellen), Old High German quellen (German quälen), Old Norse kvelja (Danish kvæle).


bara

Borrowed from Lombardic bāra (“bier, litter”), from Proto-West Germanic *beran, from Proto-Germanic *beraną (“to carry”). Compare German Bahre (“bier, stretcher”).

bor+

e del suo grembo l’anima preclara
mover si volle, tornando al suo regno,
e al suo corpo non volle altra bara.

1316–c. 1321, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XI”, in Paradiso [Heaven], lines 115–117; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2ⁿᵈ revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:

And from her bosom the illustrious soul wished to depart, returning to its realm, and for its body wished no other bier.

bier (litter to transport the corpse of a dead person)


dauði

is-noun

dauði m (genitive singular dauða, no plural)

dauða (genitive singular)
dauði (indefinite nominative singular)
dauðinn (definite nominative singular)
dauða (accusative indefinite singular)
dauðann (accusative definite singular)
dauða (dative indefinite singular)
dauðanum (dative definite singular)
dauða (genitive indefinite singular)
dauðans (definite genitive singular)

From Old Norse dauði, dauðr, from Proto-Germanic *dauþuz.

Revelation 6-11 (English and Icelandic)

I looked, and there before me was a pale horse! Its rider was named Death, and Hades was following close behind him. They were given power over a fourth of the earth to kill by sword, famine and plague, and by the wild beasts of the earth.

Og ég sá, og sjá: Bleikur hestur, og sá er á honum sat, hann hét Dauði, og Hel var í för með honum. Þeim var gefið vald yfir fjórða hluta jarðarinnar, til þess að deyða með sverði, með hungri og drepsótt og láta menn farast fyrir villidýrum jarðarinnar.


morbid

en-adj

morbid (comparative more morbid, superlative most morbid)

more morbid (comparative)
most morbid (superlative)

From Latin morbidus (“diseased”), from morbus (“sickness”), itself from the root of morī (“to die”) or directly from Proto-Indo-European *mer- (“to rub, pound, wear away”).

der

morbid poem

morbid song

Suggesting the horror of death; macabre or ghoulish.


skull and crossbones

en-noun

skull and crossbones (plural skull and crossbones or skulls and crossbones)

skull and crossbones (plural)
skulls and crossbones (plural)
skull-and-crossbones (alternative)

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In an obscure corner of the town stands a house of extreme antiquity, over the door of which are still to be seen a skull and crossbones.

1832 February, “A Tale of Galway, Ireland”, in Louis Antoine Godey, editor, The Lady’s Book: A Monthly Magazine of Belles-lettres and the Arts. […], Philadelphia, Pa.: L[ouis] A[ntoine] Godey & Co. […], →OCLC, page 95, column 1:

She stood within the chamber, and gazed around her; no signs by which an Inquisitor of old could have detected the Scholar of the Black Arts were visible. No crucibles and caldrons, no brass-bound volumes and ciphered girdles, no skulls and crossbones.

1842, [Edward Bulwer-Lytton], chapter VII, in Zanoni. […], volume III, London: Saunders & Otley, […], →OCLC, book the sixth (Superstition Deserting Faith), page 87:

Escorted to the sign of the Skull-and-Cross-Bones, we received the very best entertainment which that royal inn could afford.

1849, Herman Melville, “They Visit the Lords Piko and Hello”, in Mardi: And a Voyage Thither. […], volume II, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 144:

Mark those bottles, my dear sirs, as housewives do corrosive sublimate or ratsbane,—with a skull and crossbones, and label them "Poison," for the effect of them upon the luckless wight who should taste their contents, would be convulsive, very.

1850 June, “Letter to the Editors”, in E. W. Evans et al., editors, The Yale Literary Magazine: […], volume XV, number VII, New Haven, Conn.: T. J. Stafford [for] A. H. Maltby, →OCLC, page 273:

His own taste combined the gloomy and the grotesque, his clothes and his [book] bindings alike being covered with skulls and crossbones, and spangles to represent tears, with other conventional emblems of sorrow.

1893, Charles Isaac Elton, Mary Augusta Elton, “France: Early Bookmen—Royal Collectors”, in The Great Book-Collectors, London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co. Ltd., page 107:

And this was open rebellion. This was hoisting the skull and cross-bones.

1924 May 24 – July 12, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, “Sunday Night at Mario’s”, in Bill the Conqueror: His Invasion of England in the Springtime, 10th edition, London: Methuen & Co. […], published 1931, →OCLC, § 1, page 254:

Overhead, the black flag with the white skull-and-crossbones symbolizing defiance of radio regulations fluttered limply atop the two-hundred-foot mast mounted on the converted coaster from which they operated.

1969, John Brunner, chapter IX, in Double, Double, London: Gateway, Hachette, published 2011, →ISBN:

When poisons are involved, red skull and crossbones are added.

1973, Richard C. Colton, Edmund S. Ward, Charles H. Wager, Practical Handbook of Industrial Traffic Management, 5th edition, Washington: Traffic Service Corporation, →OCLC, page 579:

The skull and crossbones is, to be sure, a visual sign that communicates a very specific meaning.

1994, William G. Boltz, The Origin and Early Development of the Chinese Writing System, New Haven, Conn.: American Oriental Society, →ISBN, page 16:

On the floor was a big flag whose significance I could not make out. There was a big red cross in the center and around it were two skull and crossbones and two other insignia with crossed torches, crossed scythes, and a smaller cross in the center.

1996, “The Regiment de Tren: Transportation under Fire”, in Cary Nelson, Jefferson Hendricks, editors, Madrid 1937: Letters of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade from the Spanish Civil War, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, New York, N.Y.: Routledge, published 2003, →ISBN, page 554:

Because when I saw him again, the Bird had two skull-and-crossbones stenciled on his X-ray camera.

1998 April, Michael Flynn, “Friends in High Places”, in David G[eddes] Hartwell, editor, Rogue Star (A Tor Book), New York, N.Y.: Tom Doherty Associates, →ISBN, page 144:

[C]hildren who are not told otherwise may interpret the ubiquitous skull and crossbones pictograph […] to mean "pirate food" […] Parents can also play an important role by teaching their children that the skull and crossbones symbol is sometimes used to indicate poison.

2007, Michael J. Kalsher, Michael S. Wogalter, “Warnings: Hazard Control Methods for Caregivers and Children”, in Rani Lueder, Valerie J. Berg Rice, editors, Ergonomics for Children: Designing Products and Places for Toddlers to Teens, Boca Raton, Fla.: Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, section D (Children and Product Design), page 531:

By the turn of the 18th century, when Captain [John] Cranby espied [Emanuel] Wynn's skull and crossbones, the piracy trade was flourishing and ambitious pirates were becoming increasingly sophisticated in the way they operated.

2011 May 1, Alice Rawsthorn, “Skull and crossbones as branding tool”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 May 2022:

These [motorcycle] helmets often resemble World War I Prussian helmets, or are modified half-helmets, usually plain black in color, or adorned with skulls and crossbones, or other intimidating symbols.

2012, William E[dwin] Thompson, “Biker and Motorcyclist Values, Old and New”, in Hogs, Blogs, Leathers and Lattes: The Sociology of Modern American Motorcycling, Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 60:

It was a quilted leather tote with tiny skulls-and-crossbones inside each diamond; Sirena's style was definitely impossible to miss. But the million-dollar question was: how had this girl snagged it? Everyone online was buzzing about this purse, but no one could get one.

2015, Jen Jones [i.e., Jennifer Lynn Jones], chapter 1, in The New Ashley (Sleepover Girls), North Mankato, Minn.: Capstone Young Readers, →ISBN:

A depiction of a human skull and two crossed femurs (thighbones), a symbol of death traditionally used on the Jolly Roger pirate flag, but now used on chemical containers and other hazardous items as an indicator of warning of toxicity or other life-threatening dangers or risks.


roadkill

roadkill (usually uncountable, plural roadkills)

roadkills (plural)
road kill (alternative)

(chiefly US, automotive) The killing of an animal by a road vehicle.


serial killer

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A person who commits multiple (more than two) murders, especially similar ones with no obvious motive over a period of time with a "cooling-off" period between each murder.


paradisus

la-noun

paradīsus m (genitive paradīsī); second declension

paradīsus (canonical masculine)
paradīsī (genitive)
paradīsus (nominative singular)
paradīsī (nominative plural)
paradīsī (genitive singular)
paradīsōrum (genitive plural)
paradīsō (dative singular)
paradīsīs (dative plural)
paradīsum (accusative singular)
paradīsōs (accusative plural)
paradīsō (ablative singular)
paradīsīs (ablative plural)
paradīse (singular vocative)
paradīsī (plural vocative)

Italian: paradiso

Old French: parvis, parevis

French: parvis

desc

→ Middle English: parvis, parvise, parvys

English: parvis, parvise, pervis

Old Piedmontese: parays

Sicilian: paradisu

West Iberian

desctree

Old Galician-Portuguese: parayso
Galician: paraíso
Portuguese: paraíso

Spanish: paraíso (see there for further descendants)

→ Albanian: parajsa, parriz

→ Catalan: paradís

→ Friulian: paradîs

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via <i class="Latn mention" lang="la">paradīsum</i> (accusative)

→ Hungarian: paradicsom (learned) (via paradīsum (accusative))

→ Middle Irish: pardus

Irish: parthas

→ Occitan: paradís

→ Old French: paradis

desctree

Middle French: paradis
French: paradis
→ Niuean: paratiso
→ Russian: паради́з (paradíz)
→ Tokelauan: palatiho

→ Old Norse: paradís

Danish: paradis

Faroese: paradis

Icelandic: paradís

Norwegian: paradis

Swedish: paradis (see there for further descendants)

→ Romanian: paradis

→ Welsh: paradwys

→ Old English: paradīs (see there for further descendants)

→ Old Frisian: paradīs

→ Old Saxon: paradīs

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Middle Low German: paradīs, paradijs, paradyes, pardīs

→ Old Dutch: paradīs

Middle Dutch: paradijs

Dutch: paradijs (see there for further descendants)

→ Old High German: paradīs

Middle High German: paradīse

German: Paradies

Vilamovian: paradīs

Borrowed from Ancient Greek παράδεισος (parádeisos).

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(Ecclesiastical Latin) Paradise, the abode of the blessed after death


wæl

wæl (nominative singular)
walu (nominative plural)
wæl (accusative singular)
walu (accusative plural)
wæles (genitive singular)
wala (genitive plural)
wæle (dative singular)
walum (dative plural)

Middle English: wal

From Proto-Germanic *walaz, from Proto-Indo-European *welh₃- (“to hit, to strike”). Cognate with Old Saxon wal, Old High German wal, and Old Norse valr.


krepieren

de-verb

krepieren (weak, third-person singular present krepiert, past tense krepierte, past participle krepiert, auxiliary sein)

krepiert (present singular third-person)
krepierte (past)
krepiert (participle past)
sein (auxiliary)
sein (auxiliary)
krepieren (infinitive)
krepierend (participle present)
krepiert (participle past)
krepiere (first-person indicative present singular)
krepieren (first-person indicative plural present)
krepiere (first-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-i)
krepieren (first-person plural subjunctive subjunctive-i)
krepierst (indicative present second-person singular)
krepiert (indicative plural present second-person)
krepierest (second-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-i)
krepieret (plural second-person subjunctive subjunctive-i)
krepiert (indicative present singular third-person)
krepieren (indicative plural present third-person)
krepiere (singular subjunctive subjunctive-i third-person)
krepieren (plural subjunctive subjunctive-i third-person)
krepierte (first-person indicative preterite singular)
krepierten (first-person indicative plural preterite)
krepierte (first-person formal rare singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
krepierten (first-person formal plural rare subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
krepiertest (indicative preterite second-person singular)
krepiertet (indicative plural preterite second-person)
krepiertest (formal rare second-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
krepiertet (formal plural rare second-person subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
krepierte (indicative preterite singular third-person)
krepierten (indicative plural preterite third-person)
krepierte (formal rare singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii third-person)
krepierten (formal plural rare subjunctive subjunctive-ii third-person)
krepier (imperative second-person singular)
krepiere (imperative second-person singular)
krepiert (imperative plural second-person)
sein (auxiliary)
bin krepiert (first-person indicative multiword-construction perfect singular)
sind krepiert (first-person indicative multiword-construction perfect plural)
sei krepiert (first-person multiword-construction perfect singular subjunctive)
seien krepiert (first-person multiword-construction perfect plural subjunctive)
bist krepiert (indicative multiword-construction perfect second-person singular)
seid krepiert (indicative multiword-construction perfect plural second-person)
seist krepiert (multiword-construction perfect second-person singular subjunctive)
seiest krepiert (multiword-construction perfect second-person singular subjunctive)
seiet krepiert (multiword-construction perfect plural second-person subjunctive)
ist krepiert (indicative multiword-construction perfect singular third-person)
sind krepiert (indicative multiword-construction perfect plural third-person)
sei krepiert (multiword-construction perfect singular subjunctive third-person)
seien krepiert (multiword-construction perfect plural subjunctive third-person)
war krepiert (first-person indicative multiword-construction pluperfect singular)
waren krepiert (first-person indicative multiword-construction pluperfect plural)
wäre krepiert (first-person multiword-construction pluperfect singular subjunctive)
wären krepiert (first-person multiword-construction pluperfect plural subjunctive)
warst krepiert (indicative multiword-construction pluperfect second-person singular)
wart krepiert (indicative multiword-construction pluperfect plural second-person)
wärst krepiert (multiword-construction pluperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
wärest krepiert (multiword-construction pluperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
wärt krepiert (multiword-construction pluperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
wäret krepiert (multiword-construction pluperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
war krepiert (indicative multiword-construction pluperfect singular third-person)
waren krepiert (indicative multiword-construction pluperfect plural third-person)
wäre krepiert (multiword-construction pluperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
wären krepiert (multiword-construction pluperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
krepieren werden (future future-i infinitive multiword-construction)
werde krepieren (first-person future future-i multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werden krepieren (first-person future future-i multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werdest krepieren (future future-i multiword-construction second-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werdet krepieren (future future-i multiword-construction plural second-person subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werde krepieren (future future-i multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-i third-person)
werden krepieren (future future-i multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-i third-person)
werde krepieren (first-person future future-i indicative multiword-construction singular)
werden krepieren (first-person future future-i indicative multiword-construction plural)
würde krepieren (first-person future future-i multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
würden krepieren (first-person future future-i multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
wirst krepieren (future future-i indicative multiword-construction second-person singular)
werdet krepieren (future future-i indicative multiword-construction plural second-person)
würdest krepieren (future future-i multiword-construction second-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
würdet krepieren (future future-i multiword-construction plural second-person subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
wird krepieren (future future-i indicative multiword-construction singular third-person)
werden krepieren (future future-i indicative multiword-construction plural third-person)
würde krepieren (future future-i multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii third-person)
würden krepieren (future future-i multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-ii third-person)
krepiert sein werden (future future-ii infinitive multiword-construction)
werde krepiert sein (first-person future future-ii multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werden krepiert sein (first-person future future-ii multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werdest krepiert sein (future future-ii multiword-construction second-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werdet krepiert sein (future future-ii multiword-construction plural second-person subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werde krepiert sein (future future-ii multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-i third-person)
werden krepiert sein (future future-ii multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-i third-person)
werde krepiert sein (first-person future future-ii indicative multiword-construction singular)
werden krepiert sein (first-person future future-ii indicative multiword-construction plural)
würde krepiert sein (first-person future future-ii multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
würden krepiert sein (first-person future future-ii multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
wirst krepiert sein (future future-ii indicative multiword-construction second-person singular)
werdet krepiert sein (future future-ii indicative multiword-construction plural second-person)
würdest krepiert sein (future future-ii multiword-construction second-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
würdet krepiert sein (future future-ii multiword-construction plural second-person subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
wird krepiert sein (future future-ii indicative multiword-construction singular third-person)
werden krepiert sein (future future-ii indicative multiword-construction plural third-person)
würde krepiert sein (future future-ii multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii third-person)
würden krepiert sein (future future-ii multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-ii third-person)

Borrowed from Italian crepare, first only as slang among soldiers in the context of the Thirty Years' War. Since the 17th century.

Die lachen sich doch tot, wenn sich so'n Typ wie ich beschwert / Und lächeln immer noch, wenn er krepiert

1996, “Risikobiographie”, in Posen, performed by Die Sterne:

They would die of laughter if a guy like me complained / And would still be smiling when he croaked

(intransitive, vulgar) to die miserably, to croak


curtains

It's curtains for you!

"What if a bunch of scuba divers nosed about here?" / "Curtains for them, when our side-scan sonar sees them."

(figuratively, in reference to curtains closing at the end of a stage show) An end or death.


sudden death

en-noun

sudden death (countable and uncountable, plural sudden deaths)

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(countable) Instantaneous, unexpected death not caused by violence or trauma.

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see sudden, death.


black widow

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Any of several species of venomous and potentially deadly spiders, particularly Latrodectus spp.


killed in action

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There were only some four hundred United States marines who in the heroic and historic defense of Wake Island inflicted such great losses on the enemy. Some of those men were killed in action; and others are now prisoners of war.

1942 January 6, Franklin Roosevelt, 1942 President's Annual Message to Congress:

(chiefly military) The designation for a member of an organization (primarily military) who has died while on duty.


pass on

en-verb

pass on (third-person singular simple present passes on, present participle passing on, simple past and past participle passed on)

passes on (present singular third-person)
passing on (participle present)
passed on (participle past)
passed on (past)

His uncle passed on last year.

A very fine woman, Martha’s mother. She passed on—let’s see—sixteen months ago, next June. No, fifteen months ago. […] She was a very fine old lady, and I was glad to do what I could.

1953, Jim Thompson, “Allen Talbert”, in The Criminal, Berkeley, Calif.: Black Lizard Books, published 1986, →ISBN, page 5:

(intransitive, idiomatic, euphemistic) To die.


самоубица

sh-noun

самоубица m animacy unspecified (Latin spelling samoubica)

самоубица m animacy unspecified (canonical)
samoubica (romanization)


samoubica

samoubica m anim (Cyrillic spelling самоубица)

самоубица (Cyrillic)
samoubica (nominative singular)
samoubice (nominative plural)
samoubice (genitive singular)
samoubica (genitive plural)
samoubici (dative singular)
samoubicama (dative plural)
samoubicu (accusative singular)
samoubice (accusative plural)
samoubico (singular vocative)
samoubice (plural vocative)
samoubici (locative singular)
samoubicama (locative plural)
samoubicom (instrumental singular)
samoubicama (instrumental plural)


samoubistvo

samoubistvo n (Cyrillic spelling самоубиство)

самоубиство (Cyrillic)
samoubistvo (nominative singular)
samoubistva (nominative plural)
samoubistva (genitive singular)
samoubistvā (genitive plural)
samoubistvu (dative singular)
samoubistvima (dative plural)
samoubistvo (accusative singular)
samoubistva (accusative plural)
samoubistvo (singular vocative)
samoubistva (plural vocative)
samoubistvu (locative singular)
samoubistvima (locative plural)
samoubistvom (instrumental singular)
samoubistvima (instrumental plural)


Schafott

de-noun

Schafott n (strong, genitive Schafottes or Schafotts, plural Schafotte)

Schafottes (genitive)
Schafotts (genitive)
Schafotte (plural)
Schafott (nominative singular)
Schafotte (definite nominative plural)
Schafottes (genitive singular)
Schafotts (genitive singular)
Schafotte (definite genitive plural)
Schafott (dative singular)
Schafotte (dative singular)
Schafotten (dative definite plural)
Schafott (accusative singular)
Schafotte (accusative definite plural)

16th century, at first in the more general sense of “stage, podium”, from Dutch schavot, from Middle Dutch scavot, scafaut, from Old French eschafaud, variant of chafaud, from Vulgar Latin *catafalicum, probably derived from Latin fala. Doublet of Katafalk.


Davy Jones's locker

There has been much speculation about the origin of this term, but none has been substantiated. See more at Davy Jones' Locker on Wikipedia.

Davy Jones' locker (alternative)
Davy Jones locker (alternative)
Davey Jones's locker (alternative)
Davey Jones' locker (alternative)
Davey Jones locker (alternative)
Davie Jones's locker (alternative)
Davie Jones' locker (alternative)
Davie Jones locker (alternative)
Davy's locker (alternative)
Davey's locker (alternative)
Davie's locker (alternative)

"Damn my eyes," says he, "they are gone to Davy Jones's locker."
NOTE: Partridge erroneously refers to this as from the journal of Richard rather than Nicholas Cresswell.

1774, Nicholas Cresswell, The Journal of Nicholas Cresswell, 1774-7:

... are discovered singing a melancholy duet, bewailing the loss of an honest tar, whom they suppose (to use the burthen of the song) "is in Davy Jones's locker."

1781 August, Isaac Kimber, Edward Kimber, “The Summer Theatre”, in The London Magazine, or, Gentleman's Monthly Intelligencer, volume 50, page 360:

(nautical, idiomatic) The bottom of the sea, seen as a grave for sailors and the resting-place of anything that goes overboard and is lost.

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angel of death

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مَلَك الْمَوْت

personification of death in fiction and in art

死神 (しにがみ, shinigami, literally “death kami, death spirit”)

Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

A personification of death in fiction, art, mythology, or religion.

An angel in Abrahamic scripture or eschatology that attends to death.

Death, one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.


Azrael

From Latin Azrahel, from Ancient Greek Ἀζαραήλ (Azaraḗl), from Biblical Hebrew עֲזַרְאֵל (ʿăzarʾēl), possibly via Aramaic (compare Classical Syriac ܥܲܙܪܵܐܹܝܠ (ʿazrāʾēl)).

And his voice through all the garden is a thunder sent to bring / Black Azrael and Ariel and Ammon on the wing.

1915, Gilbert K[eith] Chesterton, “[War Poems.] Lepanto.”, in Poems, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: John Lane Company, published 1916, →OCLC, page 31:

The angel of death in Catholic and Orthodox Christianity, and in Islam.


expiry

en-noun

expiry (countable and uncountable, plural expiries)

(British, New Zealand, Australia) Death.


luto

Probably a semi-learned borrowing from Latin lūctus, rather than an inheritance. A fully inherited form would be expected to be lucho.

slbor

Estamos de luto.

mourning (feeling or expressing sorrow or regret, especially over someone's death)