fa

ohufaania

to regain consciousness; to understand, to recognise, to perceive

ohutafa

to be immortal, to have everlasting life


die

en-verb

die (third-person singular simple present dies, present participle dying, simple past and past participle died)

dies (present singular third-person)
dying (participle present)
died (participle past)
died (past)
die (infinitive)
die (first-person present singular)
died (first-person past singular)
die (present second-person singular)
diest (archaic present second-person singular)
died (past second-person singular)
diedst (archaic past second-person singular)
dies (present singular third-person)
dieth (archaic present singular third-person)
died (past singular third-person)
die (plural present)
died (past plural)
die (present subjunctive)
died (past subjunctive)
die (imperative present)
dying (participle present)
died (participle past)
dye (alternative obsolete)

→ Vietnamese: đai

From Middle English deyen, from Old English *dīeġan and Old Norse deyja, both from Proto-Germanic *dawjaną (“to die”). Displaced native Old English sweltan, whence Modern English swelt, and Old English steorfan, whence modern starve.

He died of malaria.

"What did she die of, Work'us?" said Noah.
"Of a broken heart, some of our old nurses told me," replied Oliver[…].

1838, Boz [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], chapter 6, in Oliver Twist; or, The Parish Boy’s Progress. […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II, or III), London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC:

In 1971 or 72, Mom's sister Carolyn Weimer died of breast cancer.

2000, Stephen King, On Writing, Pocket Books, published 2002, page 85:

(intransitive) To stop living; to become dead; to undergo death.

followed by of as an indication of direct cause; general use:

He died from heart failure.

She lived several weeks; but afterwards she died from epilepsy, to which malady she had been previously subject.

1865 March 4, British Medical Journal, page 213:

"Or all of them will die from the plague. Even if most of the candidates succumb […]"

2007, Frank Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson, Sandworms of Dune, Tor, published 2007, page 191:

followed by from as an indication of direct cause; general use, though somewhat more common in the context of medicine or the sciences:

He died for the one he loved.

Englishmen are dying for England, Americans are dying for America, Germans are dying for Germany, Russians are dying for Russia. There are now fifty or sixty countries fighting in this war.

1961, Joseph Heller, Catch-22, Simon & Schuster, published 1999, page 232:

Less than three days later, Johnson lapsed into a coma in his jail cell and died for lack of insulin.

2003, Tara Herivel, Paul Wright, editors, Prison Nation, Routledge, page 187:

followed by for; often expressing wider contextual motivations, though sometimes indicating direct causes:

Therefore let Benedicke like covered fire, / Consume away in sighes, waste inwardly: / It were a better death, to die with mockes, / Which is as bad as die with tickling.

1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:

And there were some who died with fevers, which at some seasons of the year was very frequent in the land.

1830, Joseph Smith, The Book of Mormon, Richards, published 1854, page 337:

(now rare) followed by with as an indication of direct cause:

I can't believe I just died to a turret!

Dr Thomas concluded she had died to a blow to the head, which led to a bleed on the brain, probably a fall and had hit her head hard on the wooden bedpost, as there was blood on the bedpost.

2014, S. J. Groves, The Darker Side to Dr Carter, page 437:

(now sometimes proscribed) followed by to as an indication of direct cause (like from):

She died with dignity.

(still current) followed by with as an indication of manner:

Will I die a happy man?

(in bare form) to die in a certain form.

Returne with ſpeed, time paſſeth ſwift away,
Our life is fraile, and we may dye to day.

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 I, scene i:

The cheeks drop in; the body bows;
Man dies: nor is there hope in dust: […]

1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto XXXV”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 54:


die

dies (present singular third-person)
dying (participle present)
died (participle past)
died (past)
dye (alternative obsolete)

Also no dyer shall die any cloth, except he die the cloth and the list with one colour, without tacking any bulrushes or such like thing upon the lists, upon pain to forfeit 40 s. for every cloth. And no person shall put to sale any cloth deceitfully dyed,

1739, John Cay, An abridgment of the publick statutes in force and use from Magna Charta, in the ninth year of King Henry III, to the eleventh year of his present Majesty King George II, inclusive, Drapery, XXVII. Sect. 16

To die wool with madder, prepare a fresh liquor, and when the water is come to a heat to bear the hand, put in half a pound of the finest grape madder for each pound of wool;

1813, James Haigh, The Dier's Assistant in the Art of Dying Wool and Woollen Goods:

To die Wool and Woollen Cloths of a Blue Colour. One part of indigo, in four parts concentrated sulphuric acid, dissolved; then add one part of dry carbonate of potash, [...]

1827, John Shepard, The artist & tradesman's guide: embracing some leading facts:


Thanatos

(Greek mythology) The god of death (specifically of a peaceful death), and twin brother of Hypnos (god of sleep); the Greek counterpart of Mors.


Thanatos

Civilization and Its Discontents
Paul Federn
Sigmund Freud
Thanatos

(psychoanalysis) The death drive in Freudian psychoanalysis.


hell

→ Korean: 헬 (hel)

From Middle English helle, from Old English hell, from Proto-West Germanic *hallju, from Proto-Germanic *haljō (“concealed place, netherworld”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- (“to cover, conceal, save”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Hälle (“hell”), West Frisian hel (“hell”), Dutch hel (“hell”), German Low German Hell (“hell”), German Hölle (“hell”), Norwegian helvete (“hell”), Icelandic hel (“the abode of the dead, death”). Also related to the Hel of Germanic mythology. See also hele.

cog

Hell (alternative proper-noun)
hel (alternative obsolete)
helle (alternative obsolete)

May you rot in hell!

Thou shalt beat him with the rod, and shalt deliver his soul from hell.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Proverbs 23:14:

Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.

Heav'n has no Rage, like Love to Hatred turn'd, / Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman ſcorn'd.

1697, [William] Congreve, The Mourning Bride, a Tragedy. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC, Act III, page 39:

Hell is a strait and dark and foul-smelling prison, an abode of demons and lost souls, filled with fire and smoke.

1916, James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man:

(in many religions, uncountable) A place of torment where some or all sinners are believed to go after death and evil spirits are believed to be.

النَّار f (an-nār, literally “the Fire”)

នរកកុណ្ឌ

nĕəʼrĕəʼkaʼkon


lost with all hands

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On the other hand, HMS Colossus takes multiple hits from several battleships at once, having drifted closer to the German fleet than the rest of her squadron. She explodes as multiple magazine detonations rip the ship apart, and is lost with all hands.

2018 October 17, Drachinifel, 21:33 from the start, in Last Ride of the High Seas Fleet - Battle of Texel 1918, archived from the original on 04 Aug 2022:

(nautical, of a ship, boat, or other vessel) Destroyed or sunk, with all passengers and crew having died in the process.

boat; or other vessel; boat; or other vessel

met man en muis vergaan

destroyed or sunk, while all passengers and crew died

menetetty matkustajineen ja miehistöineen

taki, który utonął ze wszystkimi na pokładzie


kill

en-verb

kill (third-person singular simple present kills, present participle killing, simple past and past participle killed)

kills (present singular third-person)
killing (participle present)
killed (participle past)
killed (past)
kill (infinitive)
kill (first-person present singular)
killed (first-person past singular)
kill (present second-person singular)
killest (archaic present second-person singular)
killed (past second-person singular)
killedst (archaic past second-person singular)
kills (present singular third-person)
killeth (archaic present singular third-person)
killed (past singular third-person)
kill (plural present)
killed (past plural)
kill (present subjunctive)
killed (past subjunctive)
kill (imperative present)
killing (participle present)
killed (participle past)

From Middle English killen, kyllen, cüllen (“to strike, beat, cut”), of obscure origin. Cognate with Scots kele, keil (“to kill”).
* Perhaps from unattested Old English *cyllan, from Proto-West Germanic *kwulljan, from Proto-Germanic *kwuljaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷelH- (“to throw, hit, hurt by throwing”).
* Or, possibly a variant of Old English cwellan (“to kill, murder, execute”) (see quell).
* Or, from Old Norse kolla (“to hit on the head, harm”), related to Norwegian kylla (“to poll”), Middle Dutch kollen (“to knock down”), Icelandic kollur (“top, head”); see also coll, cole).
Compare also Saterland Frisian källe (“to hurt”), Middle Dutch kellen (“to kill, hurt”), Middle Low German kellen, killen (“to ache strongly, cause one great pain”) (whence German Low German kellen, killen (“to hurt, injure, torment, vex”)), Middle High German kellen (“to torment; torture”).

cog

l-vocalizing: UK, General Australian, New Zealand

Smoking kills more people each year than alcohol and hard drugs combined.

A Troope of Horſe with Felt: Ile put't in proofe, / And when I haue ſtolne vpon theſe Son in Lawes, / Then kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill.

c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene vi], page 304:

Stephano: Monſter, I will kill this man : his daughter and I will be King and Queene, ſave our Graces : and Trinculo and thy ſelfe ſhall be Vice-royes : […]

1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii], page 12:

Fire ants circumvented the problem of an ineffective sting by having an unusual and highly effective venom that when daubed or sprayed on other ants penetrates their waxy protective integumental barrier and kills or disables them.

2016, Justin O. Schmidt, The Sting of the Wild, Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, page 102:

Indeed, referring to his drone murder extermination campaign Obama bragged: "I'm really good at killing people!" Those are Obama's own words!

2021, Francis A. Boyle, World Politics, Human Rights, and International Law, page 9:

After all, improving road safety has become a widely endorsed cause because nobody wants to kill, or be killed, in a road accident.

2024 September 16, Stéphane Foucart, 'To reduce their environmental impact, why not simply regulate the weight of cars?', Le Monde:

In announcing the review, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the new health secretary, said in a statement that “antisemitism — like racism — is a spiritual and moral malady that sickens societies and kills people with lethalities comparable to history’s most deadly plagues.”

2025 March 4, Sharon Otterman, “Trump Threatens Columbia With Millions in Cuts Over Antisemitism Claims”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 12 Mar 2025:

(transitive) To put to death; to extinguish the life of.


fall

en-noun

fall (countable and uncountable, plural falls)

ascent

antonym(s) of “act of moving to a lower position under the effect of gravity”

ascent

antonym(s) of “loss of greatness or status”

Fall Classic
Fall of Baghdad
Fall of Constantinople
Fall of Rome
Fall of Saigon
Falls-to-Falls Corridor
fall

Verb from Middle English fallen, from Old English feallan (“to fall, fail, decay, die, attack”), from Proto-West Germanic *fallan (“to fall”), from Proto-Germanic *fallaną (“to fall”).
Cognate with West Frisian falle (“to fall”), Low German fallen (“to fall”), Dutch vallen (“to fall”), German fallen (“to fall”), Danish falde (“to fall”), Norwegian Bokmål falle (“to fall”), Norwegian Nynorsk falla (“to fall”), Icelandic falla (“to fall”), Lithuanian pùlti (“to attack, rush”).
Noun from Middle English fal, fall, falle, from Old English feall, ġefeall (“a falling, fall”) and Old English fealle (“trap, snare”), from Proto-Germanic *fallą, *fallaz (“a fall, trap”). Cognate with Dutch val, German Fall (“fall”) and German Falle (“trap, snare”), Danish fald, Swedish fall, Icelandic fall.
Sense of "autumn" is attested by the 1660s in England as a shortening of fall of the leaf (1540s), from the falling of leaves during this season. Along with autumn, it mostly replaced the older name harvest as that name began to be associated strictly with the act of harvesting. Compare spring, which began as a shortening of “spring of the leaf”.

inh

the fall of Rome


carcass

carcasses (plural)
carcase (alternative)

Dated from the late 13th Century C.E.; from Anglo-Norman carcois, possibly related to Old French charcois. Cognate with French carcasse. But cf. also Avestan 𐬐𐬀𐬵𐬭𐬐𐬁𐬯𐬀 (kahrkās, “vulture”), and Middle Persian [Book Pahlavi needed] (klkʾs /kargās/, “vulture”), whence Persian کرکس (karkas, “vulture”).

cog

And when their ſcattered armie is ſubdu’d: / And you march on their ſlaughtered carkaſſes, / Share equally the gold that bought their liues, / And liue like Gentlmen in Perſea, […]

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 II, scene ii:

And the carkeiſes of this people ſhall be meate for the fowles of the heauen, and for the beaſts of the earth, and none ſhall fray them away.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Jeremiah 7:33, column 1:


qualm

English: qualm (possibly)

Scots: qualm (possibly)

From Old English cwealm, from Proto-West Germanic *kwalm.

cwalm (alternative)
cualm (alternative)
qwalm (alternative)
qualme (alternative)

(rare) Killing (as a concept or as an instance)


karoshi

Borrowed from Japanese 過労死 (karōshi), from 過労 (karō, “overwork”) + 死 (shi, “death”). Doublet of guolaosi and gwarosa.

For a while he began to speak Japanese, rather slangy, never having seemed to learn it — karoshi for death from overwork, yakitaori-ya for eatery, and gaijin for clumsy foreigner.

1976, Bill Henderson, The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses, Pushcart Press, page 207:

Second, we discuss the problem of karoshi, which is unique to Japan. Karoshi has become an increasingly serious problem.

2006, Ronald J. Burke, Research Companion to Working Time and Work Addiction, page 158:

[…] I am a workaholic. […] The Japanese have a word for the problem: karōshi. It means “death from overwork.”

[2007 November, Gil Schwartz, “Escape from the job monster”, in Men's Health, volume 22, number 9, →ISSN, page 120:

In Japan there is a word for the consequences of extreme busyness: karoshi''', which means 'death from overwork'. Karoshi happens when chronic fatigue, stemming from long hours and persistent stress, leads to stroke and heart disease. For most of us, the results of a busyness-induced allostatic load are much less dramatic, but still pretty bad: being 'always on' has been linked to reductions in performance, reduced memory, and increased health risks of all kinds: cardiovascular disease, reduced immune system performance and an earlier death. One expert in the US approximated that 60-90 per cent of all visits to the doctor were stress related.

2008, Tony Crabbe, Busy, Preface, at page xi

Since the 1980s, labor lawyers and citizens groups have been pushing for changes to the law to recognize karoshi as a serious social issue.

2016 November 30, Emiko Jozuka and Yoko Wakatsuki, “Death by overwork: Pressure mounts on Japan to act”, in CNN Business:

Death, such as from heart attack or stroke, brought on by overwork or job-related stress.

九九六

literally 996; 9-to-9 workday and six-day workweek


ädeadöl

ädeadöl (before-noun positive)
ädeadölum (before-noun comparative)
ädeadölün (before-noun superlative)
ädeadöl (nominative positive singular)
ädeadöls (nominative plural positive)
ädeadölum (comparative nominative singular)
ädeadölums (comparative nominative plural)
ädeadölün (nominative singular superlative)
ädeadölüns (nominative plural superlative)
ädeadöla (genitive positive singular)
ädeadölas (genitive plural positive)
ädeadöluma (comparative genitive singular)
ädeadölumas (comparative genitive plural)
ädeadölüna (genitive singular superlative)
ädeadölünas (genitive plural superlative)
ädeadöle (dative positive singular)
ädeadöles (dative plural positive)
ädeadölume (comparative dative singular)
ädeadölumes (comparative dative plural)
ädeadölüne (dative singular superlative)
ädeadölünes (dative plural superlative)
ädeadöli (accusative positive singular)
ädeadölis (accusative plural positive)
ädeadölumi (accusative comparative singular)
ädeadölumis (accusative comparative plural)
ädeadölüni (accusative singular superlative)
ädeadölünis (accusative plural superlative)
ädeadölu (positive predicative singular)
ädeadölus (plural positive predicative)
ädeadölumu (comparative predicative singular)
ädeadölumus (comparative plural predicative)
ädeadölünu (predicative singular superlative)
ädeadölünus (plural predicative superlative)
o ädeadöl! (positive singular vocative)
o ädeadöls! (plural positive vocative)
o ädeadölum! (comparative singular vocative)
o ädeadölums! (comparative plural vocative)
o ädeadölün! (singular superlative vocative)
o ädeadölüns! (plural superlative vocative)

deadan

dead person, a dead one (male or female)

saseniäl

murderous intent, bloodlust, desire or lust to kill / murder

sasenik

of or pertaining to murder, murderous, murdering


matanza

→ English: matanza


slay

en-verb

slay (third-person singular simple present slays, present participle slaying, simple past slew or slayed, past participle slain or slayed or (obsolete) yslain)

slays (present singular third-person)
slaying (participle present)
slew (past)
slayed (past)
slain (participle past)
slayed (participle past)
yslain (obsolete participle past)

From Middle English sleen, slayn, from Old English slēan (“to strike, beat, smite, stamp, forge, sting, slay, kill, impact”), from Proto-West Germanic *slahan, from Proto-Germanic *slahaną (“to fight, strike, kill”), from Proto-Indo-European *slak- (“to hit, strike, throw”).
Cognate with Dutch slaan (“to beat, hit, strike”), Low German slaan (“hit, strike”), German schlagen (“to beat, hit, strike”), Danish, Norwegian and Swedish slå (“to knock, beat, strike”), Icelandic slá (“to strike”). Related to slaughter, onslaught.

cog

The knight slew the dragon.

Our foes must all be slain.

In the meane time it chaunced, that Marcus Papyrius ſtroke one of the Galles on the heade with his ſtaffe, because he preſumed to ſtroke his bearde: with whiche iniurie the Gaulle beeing prouoked, ſlue Papyrius (as he ſate) with hys ſworde, and therewith the ſlaughter being begun with one, all the reſidue of thoſe auncient fatherly men as they ſat in theyr Chayres were ſlaine and cruelly murthered.

1577, Raphaell Holinshed, “The Historie of Englande”, in The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume I, London: […] [Henry Bynneman] for Iohn Harrison, →OCLC, page 26, columns 1–2:

The Prince of Morocco:
[…]By this scimitar,
That slew the Sophy and a Persian prince
That won three fields of Sultan Solyman,
I would outstare the sternest eyes that look,
Outbrave the heart most daring on earth,
Pluck the young sucking cubs from the she-bear,
Yea, mock the lion when he roars for prey,
To win thee, lady. […]

c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:

Slay not your children, fearing a fall to poverty, We shall provide for them and for you. Lo! the slaying of them is great sin.

1930, Marmaduke Pickthall, transl., The Meaning of the Glorious Koran, surah 17, verse 31:

"This is a graph of the death rate from infectious disease in this country. The heroes of my field have slain one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. While the heroes of your field gathered in the desert to create a new one."

2015 May 4, Randall Munroe, xkcd (webcomic), Degree-Off:

(transitive, now literary) To kill; to murder.


stiff

en-adj

stiff (comparative stiffer, superlative stiffest)

stiffer (comparative)
stiffest (superlative)

From Middle English stiff, stiffe, stif, from Old English stīf, from Proto-West Germanic *stīf, from Proto-Germanic *stīfaz, from Proto-Indo-European *steypós.
See also West Frisian stiif, Dutch stijf, Norwegian Bokmål stiv, German steif; also Latin stīpes, stīpō, from which English stevedore.
The expected Modern English form would be /staɪf/; /stɪf/ is probably originally from compounds such as stiffly, where the vowel was shortened before a consonant cluster.

থিৰ

of an object, rigid, hard to bend, inflexible


stiff

en-noun

stiff (countable and uncountable, plural stiffs)

This parrot is no more! It has ceased to be! It's expired and gone to meet its maker! This is a late parrot! It's a stiff! Bereft of life, it rests in peace! If you hadn't nailed it to the perch it would be pushing up the daisies!

1969 December 7, Monty Python, “Full Frontal Nudity, Dead Parrot sketch”, in Monty Python's Flying Circus, spoken by Mr Praline (John Cleese):


dead

en-adj

dead (not generally comparable, comparative deader, superlative deadest)

deader (comparative)
deadest (superlative)

From Middle English ded, deed, from Old English dēad, from Proto-West Germanic *daud, from Proto-Germanic *daudaz. Compare West Frisian dead, dea, Dutch dood, German tot, Danish, Norwegian død, Norwegian Nynorsk daud.

(to have) gone to one's final resting place

You breathe these dead news in as dead an ear.

c. 1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene vii]:


dead

dēad (canonical)
dēad (masculine nominative singular)
dēad (feminine nominative singular)
dēad (neuter nominative singular)
dēadne (accusative masculine singular)
dēade (accusative feminine singular)
dēad (accusative neuter singular)
dēades (genitive masculine singular)
dēadre (feminine genitive singular)
dēades (genitive neuter singular)
dēadum (dative masculine singular)
dēadre (dative feminine singular)
dēadum (dative neuter singular)
dēade (instrumental masculine singular)
dēadre (feminine instrumental singular)
dēade (instrumental neuter singular)
dēade (masculine nominative plural)
dēada (feminine nominative plural)
dēade (feminine nominative plural)
dēad (neuter nominative plural)
dēade (accusative masculine plural)
dēada (accusative feminine plural)
dēade (accusative feminine plural)
dēad (accusative neuter plural)
dēadra (genitive masculine plural)
dēadra (feminine genitive plural)
dēadra (genitive neuter plural)
dēadum (dative masculine plural)
dēadum (dative feminine plural)
dēadum (dative neuter plural)
dēadum (instrumental masculine plural)
dēadum (feminine instrumental plural)
dēadum (instrumental neuter plural)
dēada (masculine nominative singular)
dēade (feminine nominative singular)
dēade (neuter nominative singular)
dēadan (accusative masculine singular)
dēadan (accusative feminine singular)
dēade (accusative neuter singular)
dēadan (genitive masculine singular)
dēadan (feminine genitive singular)
dēadan (genitive neuter singular)
dēadan (dative masculine singular)
dēadan (dative feminine singular)
dēadan (dative neuter singular)
dēadan (instrumental masculine singular)
dēadan (feminine instrumental singular)
dēadan (instrumental neuter singular)
dēadan (masculine nominative plural)
dēadan (feminine nominative plural)
dēadan (neuter nominative plural)
dēadan (accusative masculine plural)
dēadan (accusative feminine plural)
dēadan (accusative neuter plural)
dēadra (genitive masculine plural)
dēadena (genitive masculine plural)
dēadra (feminine genitive plural)
dēadena (feminine genitive plural)
dēadra (genitive neuter plural)
dēadena (genitive neuter plural)
dēadum (dative masculine plural)
dēadum (dative feminine plural)
dēadum (dative neuter plural)
dēadum (instrumental masculine plural)
dēadum (feminine instrumental plural)
dēadum (instrumental neuter plural)
ᛞᛠᛞ (alternative)

Middle English: ded, deed

Scots: dede, deed, deid

English: dead

Yola: deed

From Proto-West Germanic *daud, from Proto-Germanic *daudaz. Cognate with Old Frisian dād, Old Saxon dōd, Old High German tōt, Old Norse dauðr, Gothic 𐌳𐌰𐌿𐌸𐍃 (dauþs).

late 9th century, translation of Orosius’ History Against the Pagans
Phillippus him dyde heora wīġ unweorð, ōð hyne ān Cwēne scēat þurh þæt þēoh, þæt þæt hors wæs dēad, þe hē on ufan sæt.

Phillippus did them their battle ignoble, until a queen shot him through the thigh, that the horse was dead, which he sat on at the top.


dead

deads (nominative plural)
dead (nominative singular)
deads (nominative plural)
deada (genitive singular)
deadas (genitive plural)
deade (dative singular)
deades (dative plural)
deadi (accusative singular)
deadis (accusative plural)
o dead! (singular vocative)
o deads! (plural vocative)
deadu (predicative singular)
deadus (plural predicative)

Borrowed from English dead or death (with the "th" changed to "d").

death, state of being dead, state of death


death

en-noun

death (countable and uncountable, plural deaths)

From Middle English deeth, from Old English dēaþ, from Proto-West Germanic *dauþu, from Proto-Germanic *dauþuz (compare West Frisian dead, Dutch dood, German Tod, Swedish död, Norwegian død), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰówtus. More at die.

(antonym(s) of“beginning of life”): birth

(antonym(s) of“maintenance of existence”): life

sudden unexplained nocturnal death syndrome

When death walked in, a chill spread through the room.

And I looked, and behold, a pale horse, & his name that sat on him was Death"

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

[T]o thoſe, Jonathan, who know what death is, and what havock and deſtruction he can make, before a man can well wheel about—'tis like a whole age.

1762, [Laurence Sterne], chapter IX, in The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, volume V, London: […] T. Becket and P. A. Dehondt, […], →OCLC, page 51:

O boy! running man is out of death ... Anyway, they say she comes on a pale horse

1974, Anthony Banks, Michael Rutherford, Peter Gabriel, Phil Collins, Steve Hackett, “Anyway”, in The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway, performed by Genesis:

(often capitalized) The personification of death as a (usually male) hooded figure with a scythe; the Grim Reaper.


stone

en-verb

stone (third-person singular simple present stones, present participle stoning, simple past and past participle stoned)

stones (present singular third-person)
stoning (participle present)
stoned (participle past)
stoned (past)

From Middle English stonen, stanen, from Old English *stānian (“to stone”), from Proto-West Germanic *stainōn, from Proto-Germanic *stainōną (“to stone”).
Cognate with Scots stane (“to stone”), German Low German stenen (“to stone”), Danish stene (“to stone”), Swedish stena (“to stone”), Faroese steina (“to stone”). Compare also Saterland Frisian stenigje (“to stone”), West Frisian stiennigje (“to stone”), Dutch stenigen (“to stone”), German steinigen (“to stone”).

stoned to death

She got stoned to death after they found her.

55 But hee being full of the holy Ghost, looked vp stedfastly into heauen, and saw the glory of God, and Iesus standing on the right hand of God,
56 And said, Behold, I see the heauens opened, and the Sonne of man standing on the right hand of God.
57 Then they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their eares, and ran vpon him with one accord,
58 And cast him out of the citie, and stoned him: and the witnesses layd downe their clothes at a yong mans feete, whose name was Saul.
59 And they stoned Steuen, calling vpon God, and saying, Lord Iesus receiue my spirit.
60 And he kneeled downe, and cried with a loud voice, Lord lay not this sinne to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleepe.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts 7:55–60:

An up slow train on the Howrah-Burdwan line, north of Calcutta, arrived 15 min. late at Belur recently. The delay resulted in several waiting passengers stoning the driver and the guard.

1955 March, “Indian Driver Stoned for Unpunctuality”, in Railway Magazine, page 190:

Our house was being stoned by a group of adolescent boys. We called the police seven times and they wouldn't come.

1980 February 9, Chris Guilfoy, anonymous quotee, “Town Meeting Talks About The Issue of Violence”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 28, page 1:

(transitive) To pelt with stones; especially, to kill by pelting with stones.


stroke

strokes (plural)
strok (alternative)
strake (alternative)
strak (alternative)
strook (alternative)
strooke (alternative)

English: stroke

Scots: strake, straik, strak

Yola: stroke

From Old English *strāc, from Proto-West Germanic *straik.

The force of death; the origin or effect of one's demise.


massacre

en-noun

massacre (countable and uncountable, plural massacres)

massacres (plural)
massacer (alternative archaic)

1580, from Middle French massacre, from Old French macacre, marcacre, macecre, macecle (“slaughterhouse, butchery”), usually thought to be deverbal from Old French macecrer, macecler (“to slaughter”), though the noun seems to be attested somewhat earlier. It is also found in Medieval Latin mazacrium (“massacre, slaughter, killing”, also “the head of a newly killed stag”). Further origin disputed:
* From Latin macellum (“butcher shop”).
* From Vulgar Latin *matteuculāre, from *matteuca (cf. massue), from Late Latin mattea, mattia, from Latin mateola.
* From Middle Low German *matskelen (“to massacre”) (compare German metzeln (“massacre”)), frequentative of matsken, matzgen (“to cut, hew”), from Proto-West Germanic *maitan, from Proto-Germanic *maitaną (“to cut”), from Proto-Indo-European *mei- (“small”). Akin to Old High German meizan (“to cut”) among others.
* Note also Arabic مَجْزَرَة (majzara), originally “spot where animals are slaughtered”, now also “massacre”, and in Maghrebi Arabic “slaughterhouse”. Derived from جَزَرَ (jazara, “to cut, slaughter”).

der

I'll find a day to massacre them all,
And raze their faction and their family

c. 1588–1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene v]:

St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre

St. Valentine's Day Massacre

Amritsar Massacre

The killing of a considerable number (usually limited to people) where little or no resistance can be made, with indiscriminate violence, without necessity, and/or contrary to civilized norms.

butchery

mass killing contrary to civilized norms

decimation

strictly an orderly selection of ⅒ of a group for slaughter; see its entry for other terms concerning other ratios


孀

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *sraŋ): semantic 女 (“woman”) + phonetic 霜 (OC *sraŋ).
Zhang (2000) relates it to 喪 (OC *smaːŋ, “mourning; funeral”), 喪 (OC *smaːŋs, “to lose”) and 霜 (OC *sraŋ, “frost (which causes loss)”). However, Schuessler (2007) considers these three words etymologically unrelated.


屍

From Old Japanese. Found in the Man'yōshū, completed some time after 759 CE, and also cited to the Nihon Shoki of 720 CE.
Appears to be a compound. Ultimate derivation unknown.


屍

Compound of 死 (shi, “death; dead”) + 屍 (kabane, “corpse”).
First cited to the late 1100s.

compound

2014 July 5, “オベリスクの巨(きょ)神(しん)兵(へい) [Obelisk the Giant God Soldier]”, in 決闘王の記憶 －決闘都市編－ [Memories of the Duel King: Battle City Edition], Konami:

Once this being descends with burning winds sweeping over the land, all living things shall turn into corpses.

その者、降臨せしむれば、灼熱の疾風大地に吹き荒れ、生きとし生ける者すべて屍とならん。

Sono mono, kōrinseshi mureba, shakunetsu no shippū daichi ni fukiare, ikitoshiikeru mono subete shikabane tonaran.


挽

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *monʔ): semantic 扌 + phonetic 免 (OC *mronʔ).

Han compound

(alt. form 輓／挽) to grieve; to mourn; to lament (a person's death)


死

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (死):
* → Japanese: 死(し) (shi)
* → Korean: 사(死) (sa)
* → Vietnamese: tử (死)

Wutunhua: se

→ Thai: ซี้ (síi)

Shuowen: Ideogrammic compound (會意 /会意): 歹 (“carcass”) + 人 (“person”) – death.
Alternatively, a phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *hljiʔ): semantic 歹 (“carcass”) + phonetic 尸 (OC *hli).
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *sij.

Han compound

𣦸
𣦹
𠒁
𠑾
𦭀
𦫺
𤯽
𣥴

被難

to be killed in a disaster, political incident

必死無疑

必死无疑

keoi⁵ loeng⁵ nin⁴ cin⁴ ji⁵ ging¹ sei² zo².

佢兩年前已經死咗。

佢两年前已经死咗。

A dead mouse was found in college cafeteria food.

Gāoxiào xuéshēng shítáng chī chū sǐ lǎoshǔ.

高校學生食堂吃出死老鼠。

高校学生食堂吃出死老鼠。

to "eat oneself to death" (endanger oneself with eating habits)

食死自己

Placing it so is a serious tripping hazard.

nei⁵ gam² joeng⁶⁻² baai² wui⁵ dit³ sei² jan⁴.

你噉樣擺會跌死人。

你噉样摆会跌死人。

嗰時死咗唔少人。

嗰时死咗唔少人。

見其生，不忍見其死。

见其生，不忍见其死。

Zhè rén xìng Wáng míng Miǎn, zài Zhūjì Xiàn xiāngcūn lǐ zhù. Qī suì shàng sǐ le fùqīn, tā mǔqīn zuò diǎn zhēnzhǐ gōnggěi tā dào cūn xuétáng lǐ qù dúshū.

這人姓王名冕，在諸暨縣鄉村裡住。七歲上死了父親，他母親做點針黹供給他到村學堂裡去讀書。

这人姓王名冕，在诸暨县乡村里住。七岁上死了父亲，他母亲做点针黹供给他到村学堂里去读书。

死節

死节

So, if a lord is killed fulfilling his duty to the divinities of the land, one joins him in death.

故君為社稷死，則死之。

故君为社稷死，则死之。

He who has given counsel to another about his army should die with it when it is defeated.

The Book of Rites, c. 4ᵗʰ – 2ⁿᵈ century BCE, translated based on James Legge's version

謀人之軍師，敗則死之。

谋人之军师，败则死之。

At this moment, certain death awaits us no matter whether we escape as fugitives or rouse ourselves to a grand cause. One death is just as good as another; shall we not rather die for our lost fatherland?

The Records of the Grand Historian, by Sima Qian, c. 91 BCE

Jīn wáng yì sǐ, jǔ dàjì yì sǐ, děng sǐ, sǐ guó kěhū?

今亡亦死，舉大計亦死，等死，死國可乎？

今亡亦死，举大计亦死，等死，死国可乎？

The covetous run after riches,
The impassioned pursue a fair name;
The proud die struggling for power,
While the people long only to live.

c. 174 BCE, Jia Yi (賈誼), The Owl (《鵩鳥賦》). Translated by Burton Watson.

Tānfū xùncái, lièshì xùnmíng. Kuāzhě sǐquán, pǐnshù měishēng.

貪夫徇財，烈士徇名。夸者死權，品庶每生。

贪夫徇财，烈士徇名。夸者死权，品庶每生。

(obsolete on its own in Standard Chinese, transitive) to die for the sake of; to sacrifice oneself for; to die together with someone

死刑

死戰

死战

(only in compounds) deadly; fatal; killing; to the death

die; death
deadly; fatal; killing; to the death

死機

死机

死結

死结

路被垃圾堵死了。


死

/si/ → /ɕi/
Appears to be a conflation of Middle Chinese 死 (MC sijX), with an Old Japanese root that happened to have a similar pronunciation to the Middle Chinese and was probably cognate with 去る (saru, “to go, to go away”). Compare modern Mandarin 死 (sǐ).
In kanji compounds, this would be considered as on'yomi; but on its own, this could be considered as either on'yomi or kun'yomi.

死勘定

dead account, trading account that has no activity

『死に至る病』

1925, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Aphorisms by a pygmy:

眠りは死よりも愉快である。少くとも容易には違いあるまい。

Nemuri wa shi yori mo yukai de aru. Sukunaku to mo yōi ni wa chigai aru mai.


kick the bucket

en-verb

kick the bucket (third-person singular simple present kicks the bucket, present participle kicking the bucket, simple past and past participle kicked the bucket)

kicks the bucket (present singular third-person)
kicking the bucket (participle present)
kicked the bucket (participle past)
kicked the bucket (past)

/ˈkɪk ðə ˈbʌkɪt/

There are many theories as to where this idiom comes from, but the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) suggests the following:
* A person standing on a pail or bucket with their head in a slip noose would kick the bucket so as to commit suicide. The OED, however, says that this is mainly speculative;
* An archaic use of bucket was a beam from which a pig is hung by its feet prior to being slaughtered, and to kick the bucket originally signified the pig's death throes. The OED finds this a more plausible theory.
Another theory is given by Roman Catholic Bishop Abbot Horne.

The old horse finally kicked the bucket.

My posthumous book Allegorizings, which will go to press in London and New York the minute I kick the bucket, is loosely governed by my growing conviction that almost nothing in life is only what it seems. It contains nothing revelatory at all.

2015 April 22, Sam Jordison, quoting Jan Morris, “Jan Morris talks about Venice”, in The Guardian:

(idiomatic, euphemistic, colloquial, humorous) To die.

сыгра́ть в я́щик (sygrátʹ v jáščik, literally “play into the casket”)

почить в бозе (počitʹ v boze, literally “sleep in God”) (solemn or ironical)

приказа́ть до́лго жить (prikazátʹ dólgo žitʹ, literally “order to live long”)

откинуть копыта (otkinutʹ kopyta, literally “throw away the hooves”)

протяну́ть ноги (protjanútʹ nogi, literally “stretch the legs”)

дать ду́ба (datʹ dúba, literally “give some oak”)

коньки́ отбро́сить (konʹkí otbrósitʹ, literally “throw away the skates”)


cuerpo

cuerpos (plural)
cuelpo (alternative obsolete pronunciation-spelling)

Inherited from Old Spanish cuerpo, from Latin corpus, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱrep-. Doublet of the borrowing corpus.


誅

Phono-semantic compound (形聲 /形声, OC *to): semantic 言 (“speech”) + phonetic 朱 (OC *tjo).
Perhaps related to 觸 (OC *tʰjoɡ, “to butt, knock against”); see there for more (STEDT).

Han compound

The people who fail to produce grain and flax and silk, fashion articles of everyday use, and interchange commodities in order to fulfil their obligations to their rulers ― should lose their heads.

c. early 9th century, Han Yu (韓愈),《原道》, translated into English as True Faith of a Confucianist by Herbert Allen Giles, 1922.

Mín bù chū sù mǐ má sī, zuò qìmǐn, tōng huòcái yǐ shì qí shàng, zé zhū.

民不出粟米麻絲、作器皿、通貨財以事其上，則誅。

民不出粟米麻丝、作器皿、通货财以事其上，则诛。


魄

From Proto-Sino-Tibetan; cognate with Tibetan བླ (bla) and Burmese လိပ်ပြာ (lippra).
Related to 白 (OC *braːɡ, “white”) (Schuessler, 2007).
; "illuminated part of the moon"
; "dark part of the moon"

(religion, folklore) the po, the soul which does not leave the body after death, compared to 魂 (hún) which does.


魄

2004 June 15, Rumiko Takahashi, “第(だい)１話(わ) 試(し)作(さく) [Chapter 1: Prototypes]”, in 犬(いぬ)夜(や)叉(しゃ) [Inuyasha], volume 35 (fiction), Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN, page 8:

Kon is the heart… in other words, the soul. And haku is the force that moves the body…

魂は心…つまり魂だ。そして魄は体を動かす力…

Kon wa kokoro… Tsumari tamashī da. Soshite haku wa karada o ugokasu chikara…

As long as it has this haku thing, even a soulless corpse can move.

魄ってやつがあれば、魂のない死骸でも動くんだな。

Haku tte yatsu ga areba, tamashī no nai shigai de mo ugoku n da na.

(religion, folklore) po (haku), the soul which does not leave the body after death, compared to hun (kon) which does.


terminal

en-adj

terminal (comparative more terminal, superlative most terminal)

more terminal (comparative)
most terminal (superlative)

Borrowed from Late Latin terminalis (“pertaining to a boundary or to the end, terminal, final”), from Latin terminus (“a bound, boundary, limit, end”). See term, terminus.

der

terminal cancer


maternal death

en-noun

maternal death (countable and uncountable, plural maternal deaths)

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The death of a woman that occurs directly related to the procreative process; obstetric death.


will

wills (plural)
wille (alternative obsolete)

→ Bengali: উইল (uil)

From Middle English wille, from Old English willa (compare verb willian), from Proto-Germanic *wiljô (“desire, will”), from Proto-Indo-European *welh₁- (“to choose, wish”). Cognate with Dutch wil, German Wille, Swedish vilja, Norwegian vilje.

der

“Uncle Barnaby was always father and mother to me,” Benson broke in; then after a pause his mind flew off at a tangent. “Is old Hannah all right—in the will, I mean?”

1928, Lawrence R. Bourne, chapter 1, in Well Tackled!:

(law) A formal declaration of one's intent concerning the disposal of one's property and holdings after death; the legal document stating such wishes.


doom

en-noun

doom (countable and uncountable, plural dooms)

From Middle English doom, dom, from Old English dōm (“judgement”), from Proto-West Germanic *dōm, from Proto-Germanic *dōmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰóh₁mos.
Compare West Frisian doem, Dutch doem, Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish dom, Icelandic dómur. Doublet of duma. See also deem.

They met an untimely doom when the mineshaft caved in.

This is the day of doom for Bassianus.

1593, William Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus:

Harley got devoured by the undead / Lurking down in some old wizard's tomb / You can say there's no such thing as zombies / But that's how Harley Warren met his doom

2006, The H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society, “Harley Got Devoured by the Undead”, in An Even Scarier Solstice:

The engines were rumbling, missing every now and then, and Rachel leaned back in her seat, prepared to meet her doom somewhere over the Pacific. At least there was a priest at hand -- maybe she could entice him to hear a final confession.

2009, Anne Kristin Stuart, Tangled lies:


doom

English: doom

Middle Scots: dome, dume

Inherited from Old English dōm, from Proto-West Germanic *dōm, from Proto-Germanic *dōmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰóh₁mos.

doim (alternative)
dom (alternative)
dome (alternative)


requiem

From Latin requiem [aeternam dōnā eīs, Domine] (“Grant them eternal rest, O Lord”).


mate

From Proto-Polynesian *mate, from Proto-Oceanic *mate, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *(m-)atay, from Proto-Austronesian *(m-)aCay.


knock off

en-verb

knock off (third-person singular simple present knocks off, present participle knocking off, simple past and past participle knocked off)

knocks off (present singular third-person)
knocking off (participle present)
knocked off (participle past)
knocked off (past)

→ Dutch: afnokken (calque)

In the verb sense of stopping work, said to be from the practice aboard slave galleys to have a man beat time for the rowers by knocking on a block or drum; when he stopped, the rowers could rest.

faligi

to remove by hitting, to hit (something) off

The mobsters hired the guy to knock off their enemies.

The Hammers knocked off Arsenal on the strength of a 78th-minute tally from Jarrod Bowen.

(transitive, slang) To kill.
(sports, by extension) To defeat.


ghost

en-noun

ghost (countable and uncountable, plural ghosts)

ghosts (plural)
ghoast (alternative obsolete)
gost (alternative obsolete)

→ Japanese: ゴースト (gōsuto)

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Inherited from Middle English gost, from Old English gāst, gǣst (“breath, spirit, soul, ghost”) (compare modern English Holy Ghost), from Proto-West Germanic *gaist, from Proto-Germanic *gaistaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰéysdos, derived from *ǵʰéysd- (“anger, agitation”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Gäist, Jeest, West Frisian geast, Dutch geest, German Low German Geest, Geist, German Geist, Swedish gast.
The ⟨h⟩ in the spelling appears in the Prologue to William Caxton's Royal Book, printed in 1484, in a reference to the ‘Holy Ghoost’, likely introduced by Caxton's assistant, Wynkyn de Worde, as a result of Flemish influence, where it was spelled gheest at the time. Doublet of geist.

Everyone believed that the ghost of an old lady haunted the crypt.

The mighty ghosts of our great Harries rose.

1667, John Dryden, Annus Mirabilis: The Year of Wonders, 1666. […], London: […] Henry Herringman, […], →OCLC, (please specify the stanza number):

I thought that I had died in sleep/And was a blessed ghost

1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere:

For a moment I was puzzled, but presently, of course, it struck me that he must have seen Ayesha, wrapped in her grave-like garment, and been deceived by the extraordinary undulating smoothness of her walk into a belief that she was a white ghost gliding towards him.

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

Hepaticology, outside the temperate parts of the Northern Hemisphere, still lies deep in the shadow cast by that ultimate "closet taxonomist," Franz Stephani—a ghost whose shadow falls over us all.

1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page vii:

A disembodied soul; a soul or spirit of a deceased person; a spirit appearing after death.


mourn

en-verb

mourn (third-person singular simple present mourns, present participle mourning, simple past and past participle mourned)

mourns (present singular third-person)
mourning (participle present)
mourned (participle past)
mourned (past)
morne (alternative)

non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger

rare, rhotic, with or without the horse–hoarse merger

rare, non-rhotic, with or without the horse–hoarse merger

From Middle English mornen, mournen, from Old English murnan, from Proto-Germanic *murnaną. Cognate with French morne (“gloomy”).

We mourn in black; why mourn we not in blood?

1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Sixt”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:

Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 23:2:

Thane Krios: It seems there will be no one to mourn me when I die. You're the only friend I've made in ten years.

2012, BioWare, Mass Effect 3 (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →OCLC, PC, scene: Nightmare:

(ambitransitive) To express sadness or sorrow for; to grieve over (especially a death).


autopsy

autopsies (plural)
autopsia (alternative archaic)

From New Latin autopsia, from Ancient Greek αὐτοψῐ́ᾱ (autopsĭ́ā, “seeing with one's own eyes”). By surface analysis, auto- + -opsy.

der

The autopsy revealed he had died of multiple bullet wounds.

A dissection performed on a cadaver to find possible cause(s) of death.


row

row (nominative singular)
rowaj (dual nominative)
rowy (nominative plural)
rowa (genitive singular)
rowow (dual genitive)
rowow (genitive plural)
rowej (dative singular)
rowu (dative singular)
rowomaj (dative dual)
rowam (dative plural)
row (accusative singular)
rowaj (accusative dual)
rowy (accusative plural)
rowom (instrumental singular)
rowomaj (dual instrumental)
rowami (instrumental plural)
rowje (locative singular)
rowomaj (dual locative)
rowach (locative plural)
rowo (singular vocative)
rowje (singular vocative)
rowaj (dual vocative)
rowy (plural vocative)


killer

en-adj

killer (comparative more killer, superlative most killer)

more killer (comparative)
most killer (superlative)

From Middle English killer, kyller. By surface analysis, kill + -er.

killer bee

killer robot

Causing death, destruction, or obliteration.


sacrifice

en-noun

sacrifice (countable and uncountable, plural sacrifices)

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *seh₂k-
Proto-Italic *sakros
Latin sacer
Latin sacrum
Proto-Italic *fakjō
Latin facio
Proto-Indo-European *-yós
Old Latin -ios
Latin -ius
Latin -ium
Latin sacrificiumlbor.
Old French sacrifisebor.
Middle English sacrifice
English sacrifice
From Middle English sacrifice (“act of offering a life or object to a deity; the life or object so offered; (Christianity) act of consecrating the elements in the mass”), from Anglo-Norman sacrefiz, and Old French sacrifice, sacrifise (modern French sacrifice), from Latin sacrificium (“something offered to a deity, sacrifice”), from sacrum (“sacrifice, sacrificial rite”) + faciō (“to do, to make”) + -ium (suffix forming abstract nouns). The noun sacrum is the nominalized neuter of the adjective sacer (“devoted to a deity for sacrifice; holy, sacred”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂k- (“ceremony, ritual; to make sacred”), and the verb faciō is ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁- (“to do; to place, put”). Related Latin formations include sacrificus (“of or pertaining to sacrifice, sacrificial”) and sacrificō (“to make a sacrifice”).
Cognates
* Italian sagrifizio
* Occitan sacrifici
* Portuguese sacrificio
* Spanish sacrificio

der

They firſt vvaſh the dead body, paint him, clothe him, and ſo conueigh him to his Dormitorie, vvhich is ſpacious and neat, vvherein they bury his Armolets, Bracelets, Shackles and ſuch Treaſure, concluding their Ceremonies vvith Mimmicke geſtures and eiaculations: vvhich, vvith the Sacrifice of a Goat, vpon his Graue, puts a period to their Burials.

1634, T[homas] H[erbert], “[Angola]”, in A Relation of Some Yeares Trauaile, Begunne Anno 1626. into Afrique and the Greater Asia, […], London: […] William Stansby, and Jacob Bloome, →OCLC, pages 9–10:

[T]he Beaſts they offered in ſacrifice, and the Gifts they offered, and their actions in VVorſhipping, vvere full of ſubmiſſion, and commemorative of benefits received, vvas according to reaſon, as proceeding from an intention to honour him [God].

1651, Thomas Hobbes, “Of the Kingdome of God by Nature”, in Leviathan, or The Matter, Forme, & Power of a Common-wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civill, London: […] [William Wilson] for Andrew Crooke, […], →OCLC, 2nd part (Of Common-wealth), page 192:

[…] Moloch, horrid King beſmear'd with blood / Of human ſacrifice, and parents tears, / Though for the noyſe of Drums and Timbrels loud / Their childrens cries unheard, that paſt through fire / To his grim Idol.

1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC, signature [B3], recto, lines 392–396:

This day the Philiſtines a popular Feaſt / Here celebrate in Gaza; and proclaim / Great Pomp, and Sacrifice, and Praiſes loud / To Dagon, as their God vvho hath deliver'd / Thee Samſon bound and blind into thir hands, […]

1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […].”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 32, lines 435–439:

Originally, the killing (and often burning) of a human being or an animal as an offering to a deity; later, also the offering of an object to a deity.

ахвярапрынашэ́нне

killing (and often burning) of a human being or an animal as an offering to a deity; offering of an object to a deity


murder

From English murder, from Middle English murder, murdre, mourdre, alteration of earlier murthre (“murder”) (see murther), from Old English morþor (“secret slaying, unlawful killing”) and Old English myrþra (“murder, homicide”), both from Proto-Germanic *murþrą (“death, killing, murder”), from Proto-Indo-European *mrtro- (“killing”), from Proto-Indo-European *mer-, *mor-, *mr- (“to die”).

an act of deliberate killing of another being, especially a human

the crime of deliberate killing of another human


succubus

Alteration in Middle English (based on incubus m) of Late Latin succuba (“strumpet, especially a mythological fiend in female form who has intercourse with men in their sleep”), from Latin succubo (“to lie under”), from sub- (“under”) + cubare (“to lie down”).

1977 Italo Calvino, The Castle of Crossed Destinies, Part 2, Chapter 5, 1969. Translated from Italian by William Weaver.
When the Sabbath is caught by the first ray of the rising sun, all the witches and the vampires, incubi and succubi, take flight, some transforming themselves into noctules, some into other bats, some into still other species of Chiroptera.

(mediaeval folklore) A female demon which comes to men, especially monks, in their dreams to seduce them and have sexual intercourse, drawing energy from the men to sustain themselves, often until the point of exhaustion or death.


Sophie's choice

en-noun

Sophie's choice (plural Sophie's choices)

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From the title of the book Sophie's Choice (1979), by William Styron, in which a mother is forced to decide which of her children will die.

As things turned out, all the enemy missiles were destroyed in flight -- two were hit very early after launch by an airborne laser system -- and a Sophie's choice was averted."

2004 March 17, Bradley Graham, “Simulated Attacks Repelled In Antimissile War Game; U.S. Almost Exhausted Arsenal of Interceptors”, in Washington Post, page A03:

We've been given a Sophie's Choice,' said Senate Minority Leader Ron Klein, D-Boca Raton. 'We can improperly care for some children vs. improperly care for other children.'

2004 March 2, “Committees OK boost for KidCare; Panels vote for additional $25M”, in Tallahassee Democrat:

A choice where every alternative has significant negative consequences.


bereavement

bereavement (countable and uncountable, plural bereavements)

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1864 November 21, Abraham Lincoln (signed) or John Hay, letter to Mrs. Bixby in Boston
I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost

The state of being bereaved; deprivation; especially the loss of a relative by death.


cadaver

From Middle English cadaver, from Latin cadāver.

“Then my first year of med school, we got our first cadavers, and there was so much data inside. You can be sure a patient will lie about how much they drink or how much they smoke, but with a cadaver, all the information is there.”

2020, Raven Leilani, Luster, Picador (2021), page 98:

(literary, medicine) A dead body; especially the corpse of a human to be dissected.


cadaver

la-noun

cadāver n (genitive cadāveris); third declension

cadāver (canonical neuter)
cadāveris (genitive)
cadāver (nominative singular)
cadāvera (nominative plural)
cadāveris (genitive singular)
cadāverum (genitive plural)
cadāverī (dative singular)
cadāveribus (dative plural)
cadāver (accusative singular)
cadāvera (accusative plural)
cadāvere (ablative singular)
cadāveribus (ablative plural)
cadāver (singular vocative)
cadāvera (plural vocative)

desc

Asturian: cadávere, calabre, cadabre, cadarma

Catalan: cadàver

Padanian:

Romagnol: cadêvar

English: cadaver

desctree

French: cadavre
→ Romanian: cadavru
→? Turkish: kadavra

Galician: cadáver, cadavre, cadable

Italian: cadavere
→? Turkish: kadavra

Neapolitan: cadavere

Portuguese: cadáver

Sicilian: cadàviri

Spanish: cadáver

From the Latin verb cadō (“I fall”), as a euphemism for dying, "the fallen one". This etymology is found as early as ca. 200 C.E. in the writings of Tertullian, who associated cadaver to cadendo:
*
c. 160 CE – c. 225 CE, Tertullian, De Resurrectione Carnis 18:
Atque adeo caro est quae morte subruitur, ut exinde a cadendo cadaver enuntietur.
Indeed, the flesh is that which is subsumed by death, and may thereafter be termed "cadaver."
A folk etymology derives cadaver syllabically from the Latin expression caro data vermibus (flesh given to worms). This etymology, more popular in Romance countries, can be traced back as early as the Schoolmen of the Middle Ages.


KIA

KIAs (plural)
K.I.A. (alternative)
K. I. A. (alternative)

(military) A person who is killed in action.


KIA

K.I.A. (alternative)
K. I. A. (alternative)

killed in action
killed in action#English

(military) Initialism of killed in action.


inherit

en-verb

inherit (third-person singular simple present inherits, present participle inheriting, simple past and past participle inherited)

inherits (present singular third-person)
inheriting (participle present)
inherited (participle past)
inherited (past)

From Middle English enheriten, from Old French enheriter, from Late Latin inhereditare (“make heir”). Displaced native Old English ierfan.

وَرَثَ

to receive property or a title by legal succession etc.

After Grandad died, I inherited the house.

‘It's rather like a beautiful Inverness cloak one has inherited. Much too good to hide away, so one wears it instead of an overcoat and pretends it's an amusing new fashion.’

1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 5, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

(transitive) To receive (property, a title, etc.), by legal succession or bequest after the previous owner's death.

Lucky old Daniel – his grandfather died rich, and he's inherited.

(intransitive) To come into an inheritance.


regicide

Learned borrowing from Medieval Latin rēgicida (“king-killer”).

lbor

The fact that the Yongle emperor was therefore a usurper, regicide and nepoticide (nephew-killer) made compiling the Veritable Record – or official history – of his reign a most dangerous scholarly post. The official given this ticklish task managed to survive several drafts, finally producing one that pleased his master as it omitted the dead nephew's reign altogether.

2014 September 15, Martin Gayford, “There's more to Ming than a vase [print version: 16 August 2014, pp. R6–R7]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review):


infanticide

en-noun

infanticide (countable and uncountable, plural infanticides)

From French infanticide, from Latin īnfanticīdium. By surface analysis, infant + -i- + -cide.

surf

(law, Canada) The criminal offence of killing of a newborn, committed by its mother while psychologically disturbed by the effects of childbirth or lactation, not regarded as murder.

(zoology) The killing of a young, immature animal by a mature adult of the same species.


insecticidal

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The insecticidal properties of sulphur were also known to the Romans, for in about 200 B.C. Cato suggested that its fumes should be allowed to blow through trees to kill the vine fetter.

1959, Gardeners' Chronicle, Horticultural Trade Journal:

Of, relating to, or being insecticide; insect-killing.


insecticide

en-noun

insecticide (countable and uncountable, plural insecticides)

From French insecticide, as insect + -icide.

The dried seed powder of custard apple (Annona squamosa L; family: Annonaceae) has been used as an insecticide in India and many other tropical countries since ancient times.

2009, Handbook of Pesticides: Methods of Pesticide Residues Analysis, →ISBN:


fungicide

fungicide (countable and uncountable, plural fungicides)

/ˈfʌŋɡɪsaɪd/

A substance used to kill fungus, whether yeasts, molds, mildews, or mushrooms.


crucifixion

crucifixion (countable and uncountable, plural crucifixions)

/ˌkɹuːsɪˈfɪkʃən/

From Middle English crucifixioun, from Late Latin noun of process crucifīxiō, from perfect passive participle crucifīxus (“fixed to a cross”), from crux (“cross”) + fīgō.

kruisiging

An execution by being nailed or tied to an upright cross and left to hang there until dead.

(Christianity, often capitalized) The death of Jesus Christ on the Cross.


resurrection

resurrection (countable and uncountable, plural resurrections)

/ɹɛzəˈɹɛkʃən/

/ɹɛzəˈɹɛkʃn̩/

From Anglo-Norman resurrectiun, from Old French resurrection (French: résurrection), from Late Latin resurrectionem (accusative of resurrectiō) from Latin resurgō (“I rise again”), from re- (“again”), + surgō (“I rise”). Displaced native Old English ǣrist.

(archaic) The act of bodysnatching (illicitly exhuming a cadaver).


execution

execution (countable and uncountable, plural executions)

From Old French execution (c.1360), from Latin exsecutiō, an agent noun from exsequor (“to follow out”), from ex (“out”) + sequor (“follow”).

The act of putting to death or being put to death as a penalty, or actions so associated.


executioner

/ˌɛksəˈkjuːʃənə/

A hit man, especially being in some organization.


pesticide

pesticide (countable and uncountable, plural pesticides)

“Twelve pesticides commonly applied to citrus groves are slated for study in the project’s plots,” reports Tom S. Bellows, UC Riverside assistant entomologist. They include four acaricides (Morestan, Kelthane, Pictran, Vendex), four thripsicides (Cygon, Carzol, Orthene, Sabadilla), and four scalicides (Parathion, Supracide, Lorsban, Sevin).

1983 May 26, “Pesticide residue effects under study”, in The Californian, volume 25, number 16, Temecula, Calif., page A-11:

Too much pesticide was applied and then washed from the fields by rains and surface runoff.

2001, David McConnell, The Good Earth: Companion Guide, McGraw-Hill Higher Education, →ISBN, page 1.12:

Pesticide and fertilizer use has been recorded since ancient times, […]

2011, Allan S. Felsot, Pesticides and Health: Myths vs. Realities, page 4:

Diluted neem oil can be effective as a pesticide and can control various fungal diseases, such as powdery mildew, on animals and plants.

2013, Meg Stout, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Aquaponic Gardening, →ISBN:

Anything, especially a synthetic substance but also any substance (e.g. sulfur), or virus, bacterium, or other organism, which kills or suppresses the activities of pests.

պեստիցիդ

substance used to kill or repress the activities of pests

marasin bilong pamim long gaden bilong kilim ol binatang samting

marasin bilong pinisim ol binatang nogut


germicide

An agent that kills pathogenic organisms; a disinfectant.


departure

departure (countable and uncountable, plural departures)

/dɪˈpɑː(ɹ)t͡ʃə(ɹ)/

From Old French deporteure (“departure; figuratively, death”). By surface analysis, depart + -ure.

uder

The time of my departure is at hand.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, 2 Timothy 4:6:

His timely departure […] barred him from the knowledge of his son's miseries.

a. 1587, Philippe Sidnei [i.e., Philip Sidney], “(please specify the folio)”, in [Fulke Greville; Matthew Gwinne; John Florio], editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia [The New Arcadia], London: […] [John Windet] for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, →OCLC:


necro-

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From Ancient Greek νεκρός (nekrós, “dead body”), from the Proto-Indo-European suffixed full-grade *nekro- of *neḱ- (“perish, disappear”); see also Middle Welsh angheu (“death”), Breton ankou, Old Irish éc, Latin noxius (“harmful”), nocēo (“to hurt, harm”), nex (“murder, violent death”) (as opposed to mors), Old Persian 𐎻𐎴𐎰𐎹𐎫𐎹 (vi-n-θ-y-t-y /vi-nathayatiy/, “he injures”), Avestan 𐬥𐬀𐬯𐬌𐬌𐬈𐬌𐬙𐬌 (nasiieⁱti, “disappears”), 𐬥𐬀𐬯𐬎- (nasu-, “corpse”), Sanskrit नश्यति (naśyati, “disappear, perish”).


necrophilia

en-noun

necrophilia (countable and uncountable, plural necrophilias)

/ˌnɛkɹə(ʊ)ˈfɪlɪə/

From necro- + -philia. From necro- (Ancient Greek νεκρός (nekrós, “corpse, dead”)) + -philia (Ancient Greek φιλία (philía, “affection”)), after German Nekrophilie (in Krafft-Ebing 1887).

uder

(medicine) A pathological fascination with death.


necrophilia

la-noun

necrophilia f (genitive necrophiliae); first declension

necrophiliae (genitive)
necrophilia (nominative singular)
necrophiliae (nominative plural)
necrophiliae (genitive singular)
necrophiliārum (genitive plural)
necrophiliae (dative singular)
necrophiliīs (dative plural)
necrophiliam (accusative singular)
necrophiliās (accusative plural)
necrophiliā (ablative singular)
necrophiliīs (ablative plural)
necrophilia (singular vocative)
necrophiliae (plural vocative)


carnage

en-noun

carnage (usually uncountable, plural carnages)

/ˈkɑɹ.nɪd͡ʒ/

Borrowed from Middle French carnage, from a Norman or Picard variant Old Northern French) of Old French charnage, from char (“flesh”), or from Vulgar Latin *carnaticum (“slaughter of animals”), itself from Latin carnem, accusative of caro (“flesh”).

der

Unleash the wolves / Carnage has no rules / Comparison, competition / We'll bury one and all, all

2007, “Wolves”, in Robb Flynn (lyrics), The Blackening, performed by Machine Head, Track 7:

Carnage consumes all we’ve ever loved / The innocent blistered by the flame / Trial by fire we burn in shame

2019, “The Sea of Tragic Beasts”, performed by Fit for an Autopsy:


pogrom

Borrowed from Yiddish פּאָגראָם (pogrom), from Russian погро́м (pogróm).

More strikingly, when blood ran on the streets of Pittsburgh after the pogrom at the Tree of Life Synagogue in 2018, Trump did not meet with community leaders of the Pittsburgh Jewish community, nor the family members of the dead, nor even the city’s mayor. He spoke with Ron Dermer, Israel’s ambassador to the United States.

2019 July 17, Talia Lavin, “When Non-Jews Wield Anti-Semitism as Political Shield”, in GQ:

An antisemitic hate crime with a large death toll, irrespective of the number of perpetrators.


pogrom

pogrom (nominative singular)
pogromy (nominative plural)
pogromu (genitive singular)
pogromów (genitive plural)
pogromowi (dative singular)
pogromom (dative plural)
pogrom (accusative singular)
pogromy (accusative plural)
pogromem (instrumental singular)
pogromami (instrumental plural)
pogromie (locative singular)
pogromach (locative plural)
pogromie (singular vocative)
pogromy (plural vocative)


pogrom

pogrom (indefinite nominative singular)
pogroms (genitive indefinite singular)
pogromen (definite nominative singular)
pogromens (definite genitive singular)
pogromer (indefinite nominative plural)
pogromers (genitive indefinite plural)
pogromerna (definite nominative plural)
pogromernas (definite genitive plural)


bane

en-noun

bane (countable and uncountable, plural banes)

The noun is derived from Middle English bane (“person or thing that destroys life, murderer, slayer; person who destroys the soul; destruction of life, death, doom; poison”), from Old English bana (“person or thing that causes death, murderer”), from Proto-West Germanic *banō, from Proto-Germanic *banô (“killer, murderer, slayer; death, bane”), probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰen- (“to slay, kill; to strike”).
The verb is derived from the noun.
cognates
* Gothic 𐌱𐌰𐌽𐌾𐌰 (banja, “wound”)
* Old Frisian bona (“death; murder”)
* Old Norse bani (Danish bane (“death; murder”), Icelandic bani (“bane, death”), Swedish bane (“death; murder”)), Old Norse ben (“(moral) wound”)
* Old English ben, benn (“mortal injury; wound”)
* Old High German bano (“death”) (Middle High German ban, bane)
* Old Saxon bano (“death; murder”), beni (“mortal injury; wound”)

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напаст

cause of misery or ruin — see also affliction

I vvill not be affraid of Death and Bane, / Till Birnane Forreſt come to Dunſinane.

c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii], page 149, column 2:

[I]f now again intoxicated and moaped with theſe royal, and therefore ſo delicious becauſe royal rudiments of bondage, the cup of deception, ſpiced and tempered to their bane, they ſhould deliver up themſelves to theſe glozing words and illuſions of him, vvhoſe rage and utmoſt violence they have ſuſtained, and overcome ſo nobly.

1650, [John Milton], “Intitled to the Prince of Wales”, in ΈΙΚΟΝΟΚΛΑΣΤΗΣ [Éikonoklastēs]. […], new (2nd) edition, London: […] G. Kearsly, […], published 1770, →OCLC, pages 272–273:

[A] great depopulation happened [due to the plague], at the Aſſiſes of Perſons of quality, and the tvvo Judges, Baron Yates, and Baron Rigby getting their banes there, died fevv dayes later.

1655, Thomas Fuller, “Section III. To Mrs. Anne Danvers of Chelsey.”, in The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, book IX, page 110:

Doctor [William] VVhitaker returning from Lambeth Conference, brought home vvith him the bane of his health, contracted there by hard and late ſtudying and vvatching in a very cold VVinter.

1655, Thomas Fuller, “Section VII”, in The History of the University of Cambridge, since the Conquest, [London]: [[…] Iohn Williams […]], →OCLC, paragraph 18, page 151:

(uncountable) Death; destruction; (countable) an instance of this.


ghoul

Portuguese: ghoul

Borrowed from French goule, from Persian غول (ġul) from Arabic غُول (ḡūl).

A person with an undue interest in death and corpses, or more generally in things that are revolting and repulsive.


perneco

la-verb

pernecō (present infinitive pernecāre, perfect active pernecāvī, supine pernecātum); first conjugation

pernecō (canonical)
pernecāre (infinitive present)
pernecāvī (active perfect)
pernecātum (supine)
pernecō (active first-person indicative present singular)
pernecās (active indicative present second-person singular)
pernecat (active indicative present singular third-person)
pernecāmus (active first-person indicative plural present)
pernecātis (active indicative plural present second-person)
pernecant (active indicative plural present third-person)
pernecābam (active first-person imperfect indicative singular)
pernecābās (active imperfect indicative second-person singular)
pernecābat (active imperfect indicative singular third-person)
pernecābāmus (active first-person imperfect indicative plural)
pernecābātis (active imperfect indicative plural second-person)
pernecābant (active imperfect indicative plural third-person)
pernecābō (active first-person future indicative singular)
pernecābis (active future indicative second-person singular)
pernecābit (active future indicative singular third-person)
pernecābimus (active first-person future indicative plural)
pernecābitis (active future indicative plural second-person)
pernecābunt (active future indicative plural third-person)
pernecāvī (active first-person indicative perfect singular)
pernecāvistī (active indicative perfect second-person singular)
pernecāvit (active indicative perfect singular third-person)
pernecāvimus (active first-person indicative perfect plural)
pernecāvistis (active indicative perfect plural second-person)
pernecāvērunt (active indicative perfect plural third-person)
pernecāvēre (active indicative perfect plural third-person)
pernecāveram (active first-person indicative pluperfect singular)
pernecāverās (active indicative pluperfect second-person singular)
pernecāverat (active indicative pluperfect singular third-person)
pernecāverāmus (active first-person indicative pluperfect plural)
pernecāverātis (active indicative pluperfect plural second-person)
pernecāverant (active indicative pluperfect plural third-person)
pernecāverō (active first-person future indicative perfect singular)
pernecāveris (active future indicative perfect second-person singular)
pernecāverit (active future indicative perfect singular third-person)
pernecāverimus (active first-person future indicative perfect plural)
pernecāveritis (active future indicative perfect plural second-person)
pernecāverint (active future indicative perfect plural third-person)
pernecor (first-person indicative passive present singular)
pernecāris (indicative passive present second-person singular)
pernecāre (indicative passive present second-person singular)
pernecātur (indicative passive present singular third-person)
pernecāmur (first-person indicative passive plural present)
pernecāminī (indicative passive plural present second-person)
pernecantur (indicative passive plural present third-person)
pernecābar (first-person imperfect indicative passive singular)
pernecābāris (imperfect indicative passive second-person singular)
pernecābāre (imperfect indicative passive second-person singular)
pernecābātur (imperfect indicative passive singular third-person)
pernecābāmur (first-person imperfect indicative passive plural)
pernecābāminī (imperfect indicative passive plural second-person)
pernecābantur (imperfect indicative passive plural third-person)
pernecābor (first-person future indicative passive singular)
pernecāberis (future indicative passive second-person singular)
pernecābere (future indicative passive second-person singular)
pernecābitur (future indicative passive singular third-person)
pernecābimur (first-person future indicative passive plural)
pernecābiminī (future indicative passive plural second-person)
pernecābuntur (future indicative passive plural third-person)
pernecem (active first-person present singular subjunctive)
pernecēs (active present second-person singular subjunctive)
pernecet (active present singular subjunctive third-person)
pernecēmus (active first-person plural present subjunctive)
pernecētis (active plural present second-person subjunctive)
pernecent (active plural present subjunctive third-person)
pernecārem (active first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
pernecārēs (active imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
pernecāret (active imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
pernecārēmus (active first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
pernecārētis (active imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
pernecārent (active imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
pernecāverim (active first-person perfect singular subjunctive)
pernecāverīs (active perfect second-person singular subjunctive)
pernecāverit (active perfect singular subjunctive third-person)
pernecāverīmus (active first-person perfect plural subjunctive)
pernecāverītis (active perfect plural second-person subjunctive)
pernecāverint (active perfect plural subjunctive third-person)
pernecāvissem (active first-person pluperfect singular subjunctive)
pernecāvissēs (active pluperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
pernecāvisset (active pluperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
pernecāvissēmus (active first-person pluperfect plural subjunctive)
pernecāvissētis (active pluperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
pernecāvissent (active pluperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
pernecer (first-person passive present singular subjunctive)
pernecēris (passive present second-person singular subjunctive)
pernecēre (passive present second-person singular subjunctive)
pernecētur (passive present singular subjunctive third-person)
pernecēmur (first-person passive plural present subjunctive)
pernecēminī (passive plural present second-person subjunctive)
pernecentur (passive plural present subjunctive third-person)
pernecārer (first-person imperfect passive singular subjunctive)
pernecārēris (imperfect passive second-person singular subjunctive)
pernecārēre (imperfect passive second-person singular subjunctive)
pernecārētur (imperfect passive singular subjunctive third-person)
pernecārēmur (first-person imperfect passive plural subjunctive)
pernecārēminī (imperfect passive plural second-person subjunctive)
pernecārentur (imperfect passive plural subjunctive third-person)
pernecā (active imperative present second-person singular)
pernecāte (active imperative plural present second-person)
pernecātō (active future imperative second-person singular)
pernecātō (active future imperative singular third-person)
pernecātōte (active future imperative plural second-person)
pernecantō (active future imperative plural third-person)
pernecāre (imperative passive present second-person singular)
pernecāminī (imperative passive plural present second-person)
pernecātor (future imperative passive second-person singular)
pernecātor (future imperative passive singular third-person)
pernecantor (future imperative passive plural third-person)
pernecāre (active infinitive present)
pernecārī (infinitive passive present)
pernecāns (active participle present)
pernecātūrum esse (active future infinitive)
pernecātum īrī (future infinitive passive)
pernecātūrus (active future participle)
pernecandus (future participle passive)
pernecāvisse (active infinitive perfect)
pernecātum esse (infinitive passive perfect)
pernecātus (participle passive perfect)
pernecātum fore (future infinitive passive perfect)
pernecātūrum fuisse (active infinitive perfect potential)
pernecandī (genitive gerund noun-from-verb)
pernecandō (dative gerund noun-from-verb)
pernecandum (accusative gerund noun-from-verb)
pernecandō (ablative gerund noun-from-verb)
pernecātum (accusative noun-from-verb supine)
pernecātū (ablative noun-from-verb supine)

From per- + necō (“kill, put to death”).


expire

en-verb

expire (third-person singular simple present expires, present participle expiring, simple past and past participle expired)

expires (present singular third-person)
expiring (participle present)
expired (participle past)
expired (past)
exspire (alternative obsolete)

From Middle English expire, from Middle French expirer, from Latin expīrō, exspīrō, from ex- (“out”) + spīrō (“breathe, be alive”).

The patient expired in hospital.

And then, his head ſinking on his pillow, he expired; at about half an hour after ten.

1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter CXIII”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume VII, London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], →OCLC, page 415:

Hippolita, ſcarce more alive than her daughter, was regardleſs of every thing but her: but when the tender Iſabella’s care would have likewiſe removed her, while the ſurgeons examined Matilda’s wound, ſhe cried, remove me! never! never! I lived but in her, and will expire with her.

1764 December 24 (indicated as 1765), Onuphrio Muralto, translated by William Marshal [pseudonyms; Horace Walpole], chapter V, in The Castle of Otranto, […], London: […] Tho[mas] Lownds […], →OCLC, pages 190–191:

Soon the patient had no longer sufficient strength to sit up; the trunk of the body was inclined to the right side, the head high and thrown backward, the mouth wide open: she seemed to stifle rather than respire: lastly, speech and respiration failed her; she uttered, however, in a feeble voice, some incoherent words, said she felt she was dying, and, accordingly, expired the sixth day after entrance.

1833, R. J. Bertin, translated by Charles W. Chauncy, Treatise on the Diseases of the Heart, and Great Vessels, Philadelphia: Carey, Lea & Blnachard, page 185:

People bled to death like gentlemen in an operating room or expired without comment in an oxygen tent.

1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Soldier in White”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 168:


in cruce corvos pasco

la-verb

in cruce corvōs pāscō (present infinitive in cruce corvōs pāscere, perfect active in cruce corvōs pāvī, supine in cruce corvōs pāstum); third conjugation

in cruce corvōs pāscō (canonical)
in cruce corvōs pāscere (infinitive present)
in cruce corvōs pāvī (active perfect)
in cruce corvōs pāstum (supine)
in cruce corvōs pāscō (active first-person indicative present singular)
in cruce corvōs pāscis (active indicative present second-person singular)
in cruce corvōs pāscit (active indicative present singular third-person)
in cruce corvōs pāscimus (active first-person indicative plural present)
in cruce corvōs pāscitis (active indicative plural present second-person)
in cruce corvōs pāscunt (active indicative plural present third-person)
in cruce corvōs pāscēbam (active first-person imperfect indicative singular)
in cruce corvōs pāscēbās (active imperfect indicative second-person singular)
in cruce corvōs pāscēbat (active imperfect indicative singular third-person)
in cruce corvōs pāscēbāmus (active first-person imperfect indicative plural)
in cruce corvōs pāscēbātis (active imperfect indicative plural second-person)
in cruce corvōs pāscēbant (active imperfect indicative plural third-person)
in cruce corvōs pāscam (active first-person future indicative singular)
in cruce corvōs pāscēs (active future indicative second-person singular)
in cruce corvōs pāscet (active future indicative singular third-person)
in cruce corvōs pāscēmus (active first-person future indicative plural)
in cruce corvōs pāscētis (active future indicative plural second-person)
in cruce corvōs pāscent (active future indicative plural third-person)
in cruce corvōs pāvī (active first-person indicative perfect singular)
in cruce corvōs pāvistī (active indicative perfect second-person singular)
in cruce corvōs pāvit (active indicative perfect singular third-person)
in cruce corvōs pāvimus (active first-person indicative perfect plural)
in cruce corvōs pāvistis (active indicative perfect plural second-person)
in cruce corvōs pāvērunt (active indicative perfect plural third-person)
in cruce corvōs pāvēre (active indicative perfect plural third-person)
in cruce corvōs pāveram (active first-person indicative pluperfect singular)
in cruce corvōs pāverās (active indicative pluperfect second-person singular)
in cruce corvōs pāverat (active indicative pluperfect singular third-person)
in cruce corvōs pāverāmus (active first-person indicative pluperfect plural)
in cruce corvōs pāverātis (active indicative pluperfect plural second-person)
in cruce corvōs pāverant (active indicative pluperfect plural third-person)
in cruce corvōs pāverō (active first-person future indicative perfect singular)
in cruce corvōs pāveris (active future indicative perfect second-person singular)
in cruce corvōs pāverit (active future indicative perfect singular third-person)
in cruce corvōs pāverimus (active first-person future indicative perfect plural)
in cruce corvōs pāveritis (active future indicative perfect plural second-person)
in cruce corvōs pāverint (active future indicative perfect plural third-person)
in cruce corvī pāscor (first-person indicative passive present singular)
in cruce corvī pāsceris (indicative passive present second-person singular)
in cruce corvī pāscere (indicative passive present second-person singular)
in cruce corvī pāscitur (indicative passive present singular third-person)
in cruce corvī pāscimur (first-person indicative passive plural present)
in cruce corvī pāsciminī (indicative passive plural present second-person)
in cruce corvī pāscuntur (indicative passive plural present third-person)
in cruce corvī pāscēbar (first-person imperfect indicative passive singular)
in cruce corvī pāscēbāris (imperfect indicative passive second-person singular)
in cruce corvī pāscēbāre (imperfect indicative passive second-person singular)
in cruce corvī pāscēbātur (imperfect indicative passive singular third-person)
in cruce corvī pāscēbāmur (first-person imperfect indicative passive plural)
in cruce corvī pāscēbāminī (imperfect indicative passive plural second-person)
in cruce corvī pāscēbantur (imperfect indicative passive plural third-person)
in cruce corvī pāscar (first-person future indicative passive singular)
in cruce corvī pāscēris (future indicative passive second-person singular)
in cruce corvī pāscēre (future indicative passive second-person singular)
in cruce corvī pāscētur (future indicative passive singular third-person)
in cruce corvī pāscēmur (first-person future indicative passive plural)
in cruce corvī pāscēminī (future indicative passive plural second-person)
in cruce corvī pāscentur (future indicative passive plural third-person)
in cruce corvōs pāscam (active first-person present singular subjunctive)
in cruce corvōs pāscās (active present second-person singular subjunctive)
in cruce corvōs pāscat (active present singular subjunctive third-person)
in cruce corvōs pāscāmus (active first-person plural present subjunctive)
in cruce corvōs pāscātis (active plural present second-person subjunctive)
in cruce corvōs pāscant (active plural present subjunctive third-person)
in cruce corvōs pāscerem (active first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
in cruce corvōs pāscerēs (active imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
in cruce corvōs pāsceret (active imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
in cruce corvōs pāscerēmus (active first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
in cruce corvōs pāscerētis (active imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
in cruce corvōs pāscerent (active imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
in cruce corvōs pāverim (active first-person perfect singular subjunctive)
in cruce corvōs pāverīs (active perfect second-person singular subjunctive)
in cruce corvōs pāverit (active perfect singular subjunctive third-person)
in cruce corvōs pāverīmus (active first-person perfect plural subjunctive)
in cruce corvōs pāverītis (active perfect plural second-person subjunctive)
in cruce corvōs pāverint (active perfect plural subjunctive third-person)
in cruce corvōs pāvissem (active first-person pluperfect singular subjunctive)
in cruce corvōs pāvissēs (active pluperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
in cruce corvōs pāvisset (active pluperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
in cruce corvōs pāvissēmus (active first-person pluperfect plural subjunctive)
in cruce corvōs pāvissētis (active pluperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
in cruce corvōs pāvissent (active pluperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
in cruce corvī pāscar (first-person passive present singular subjunctive)
in cruce corvī pāscāris (passive present second-person singular subjunctive)
in cruce corvī pāscāre (passive present second-person singular subjunctive)
in cruce corvī pāscātur (passive present singular subjunctive third-person)
in cruce corvī pāscāmur (first-person passive plural present subjunctive)
in cruce corvī pāscāminī (passive plural present second-person subjunctive)
in cruce corvī pāscantur (passive plural present subjunctive third-person)
in cruce corvī pāscerer (first-person imperfect passive singular subjunctive)
in cruce corvī pāscerēris (imperfect passive second-person singular subjunctive)
in cruce corvī pāscerēre (imperfect passive second-person singular subjunctive)
in cruce corvī pāscerētur (imperfect passive singular subjunctive third-person)
in cruce corvī pāscerēmur (first-person imperfect passive plural subjunctive)
in cruce corvī pāscerēminī (imperfect passive plural second-person subjunctive)
in cruce corvī pāscerentur (imperfect passive plural subjunctive third-person)
in cruce corvōs pāsce (active imperative present second-person singular)
in cruce corvōs pāscite (active imperative plural present second-person)
in cruce corvōs pāscitō (active future imperative second-person singular)
in cruce corvōs pāscitō (active future imperative singular third-person)
in cruce corvōs pāscitōte (active future imperative plural second-person)
in cruce corvōs pāscuntō (active future imperative plural third-person)
in cruce corvī pāscere (imperative passive present second-person singular)
in cruce corvī pāsciminī (imperative passive plural present second-person)
in cruce corvī pāscitor (future imperative passive second-person singular)
in cruce corvī pāscitor (future imperative passive singular third-person)
in cruce corvī pāscuntor (future imperative passive plural third-person)
in cruce corvōs pāscere (active infinitive present)
in cruce corvōs pāscī (infinitive passive present)
in cruce corvōs pāscēns (active participle present)
in cruce corvōs pāstūrum esse (active future infinitive)
in cruce corvōs pāstum īrī (future infinitive passive)
in cruce corvōs pāstūrus (active future participle)
in cruce corvī pāscendus (future participle passive)
in cruce corvī pāscundus (future participle passive)
in cruce corvōs pāvisse (active infinitive perfect)
in cruce corvōs pāstum esse (infinitive passive perfect)
in cruce corvī pāstus (participle passive perfect)
in cruce corvōs pāstum fore (future infinitive passive perfect)
in cruce corvōs pāstūrum fuisse (active infinitive perfect potential)
in cruce corvōs pāscendī (genitive gerund noun-from-verb)
in cruce corvōs pāscendō (dative gerund noun-from-verb)
in cruce corvōs pāscendum (accusative gerund noun-from-verb)
in cruce corvōs pāscendō (ablative gerund noun-from-verb)
in cruce corvōs pāstum (accusative noun-from-verb supine)
in cruce corvōs pāstū (ablative noun-from-verb supine)


bana

bana (nominative singular)
banan (nominative plural)
banan (accusative singular)
banan (accusative plural)
banan (genitive singular)
banena (genitive plural)
banan (dative singular)
banum (dative plural)
bona (alternative)

desctree

Middle English: bane, ban, bayn, beone, bone (West Midland)
English: bane
Middle Scots: bane, baine, bain, bayn, bone

From Proto-West Germanic *banō, from Proto-Germanic *banô. Cognate with Old Frisian bona, Old Saxon bano, Old High German bano, Old Norse bani.


tuer

From Old French tuer, from Latin tūtāri (“avert, ward off”).


undead

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From Middle English undede, equivalent to un- + dead. The first attestation is from around 1400. The term was revived, popularized, and imbued with supernatural connotations by its usage in Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula.

Pertaining to a corpse, though having qualities of life.


ciel

Haitian Creole: syèl

Inherited from Old French ciel, from Latin caelum, from Proto-Italic *kailom, from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂i-lom (“whole”), from *keh₂i-.

On croyait au ciel.


murderer

murderers (plural)
murtherer (alternative)

From Middle English murderere; equivalent to murder + -er.

Neither does a great nation […] debate, with drivelling tears, and diabolical sympathies, whether it ought not piously to save, and nursingly cherish, the lives of its murderers.

It was two o'clock when she came to herself and called for the police. The murderer was gone long ago; but there lay his victim in the middle of the lane, incredibly mangled. The stick with which the deed had been done, although it was of some rare and very tough and heavy wood, had broken in the middle under the stress of this insensate cruelty

1886 January 5, Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC:

I had never defrauded a man of a farthing, nor called him knave behind his back. But now the last rag that covered my nakedness had been torn from me. I was branded a blackleg, card-sharper, and murderer.

1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter II, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:

“Every murderer is probably somebody’s old friend,” observed Poirot philosophically. “You cannot mix up sentiment and reason.”

1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 150:


testament

From Middle English testament, from Old French testament, from Latin testāmentum (“the publication of a will, a will, testament, in Late Latin one of the divisions of the Bible”), from testor (“I am a witness, testify, attest, make a will”), from testis (“one who attests, a witness”).

der

(law) A solemn, authentic instrument in writing, by which a person declares his or her will as to disposal of his or her inheritance (estate and effects) after his or her death, benefiting specified heir(s).


Grim Reaper

/ˈɡɹɪm ˈɹiː.pə/

/ˈɡɹɪm ˈɹi.pɚ/

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From grim + reaper, first attested 1847. The word grim previously had a stronger meaning ("fierce, angry, sinister") and had more of an association with ghostliness (compare Old English grima (“specter, apparition”), English grim (n.)). The association between grim and death dates back to at least the late 16th century (the line "grim death, how foul and loathsome is thine image" appears in Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew around 1590). The reaper element comes from the personification of Death as a reaper (harvester) of souls in connection to to the popular depiction of Death wielding a scythe. The symbol of the scythe itself comes from a partially unintentional conflation of Cronus (the Titan associated with the harvest, said to have used his scythe to castrate his father Uranus) and Chronos (the personification of Father Time).

cog

Her husband was dead, and Werper fancied that he could replace in the girl’s heart the position which had been vacated by the act of the grim reaper.

1916, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar:

"Golly, I feel like the devil!" muttered Anthony dispassionately. Relaxing, he tumbled back upon his pillow. "Bring on your grim reaper!"

1922, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, book 2, page 220:

Mary, will you be mine? Shall we go round together? Will you fix up a match with me on the links of life which shall end only when the Grim Reaper lays us both a stymie?

1922, P. G. Wodehouse, The Clicking of Cuthbert:

On the one hand, we had a scenario where, effectively, the American admiral just went "You know what, all the destroyers attack", at which point they mowed through the Japanese destroyers like a Grim Reaper through a harvest of very, very dead gorn, especially with the Brooklyns in support.

2019 March 6, Drachinifel, 25:58 from the start, in The Battle of Samar (Alternate History) - Bring on the Battleships!, archived from the original on 04 Jul 2022:

But that is the likely outcome if the railway waits for Treasury's grim reaper to come a-calling.

2021 January 13, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Make freight an equal priority”, in Rail, page 3:

A personification of Death as an old man, or a skeleton, carrying a scythe, taking souls to the afterlife.

Chronos
Cronus
The Taming of the Shrew
Uranus_(mythology)

стару́ха с косо́й f (starúxa s kosój, literally “old woman with scythe”)


electrocution

en-noun

electrocution (countable and uncountable, plural electrocutions)

/ɪˌlɛktɹəˈkjuːʃən/

Blend of electro- + execution. By surface analysis, electrocute + -ion.

The accidental death or suicide by electric shock.


immortal

From Latin immortālis, from prefix im- (“not”) (from in-) + mortālis (“mortal”) (from mors (“death”), combining form mort- + adjectival suffix -alis), equivalent to im- + mortal. Displaced native undeadly, from Old English undēadlīċ.

Not susceptible to death; living forever; never dying.


immortal

The brutal insouciance of her fellow immortals — whether her sharp-tongued mother, Perse; or chilly Hermes; or righteous Athena enraged — proves increasingly alien to this thoughtful and compassionate woman who learns to love unselfishly.

2018 May 28, Claire Messud, “Turning Circe Into a Good Witch”, in The New York Times:


mortal

en-adj

mortal (comparative more mortal, superlative most mortal)

more mortal (comparative)
most mortal (superlative)

From Middle English mortal, mortel, from Old French mortal, and their source Latin mortālis, from mors (“death”). Partly displaced native deadly, from Old English dēadlīċ.

Blyndfold he was; and in his cruell fist
 A mortall bow and arrowes keene did hold […]

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

into the plain
Disgorged at length, the dead and the alive,
In one dread mass, were parted, and the stain
Of blood from mortal steel fell o’er the fields like rain.

1817 December, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “The Revolt of Islam. […]”, in [Mary] Shelley, editor, The Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley. […], volume I, London: Edward Moxon […], published 1839, →OCLC, page 263:

Causing death; deadly, fatal, killing, lethal (now only of wounds, injuries etc.).

Safe in the hand of one disposing Power,
 Or in the natal or the mortal hour.

1733, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Man. […], (please specify |epistle=I to IV), London: […] J[ohn] Wilford, […], →OCLC:

(religion, of a sin) Causing spiritual death.


mortal

Her wisdom was beyond that of a mere mortal.

Lord what fools these mortals be!

c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, “A Midsommer Nights Dreame”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

But then I had the flintlock by me for protection.
 There were giants in the days when that gun was made; for surely no modern mortal could have held that mass of metal steady to his shoulder. 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[…].

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


mortal

It's mortal cold out there.

(colloquial) Mortally; enough to cause death.


mortal

es-adj

mortal m or f (masculine and feminine plural mortales)


mortality

en-noun

mortality (countable and uncountable, plural mortalities)

From Old French mortalite, from Latin mortālitās, from mortālis (“relating to death”), from mors (“death”); equivalent to mortal + -ity.

Why am I mockt with death, and length’nd out / To deathless pain? how gladly would I meet / Mortalitie my sentence, and be Earth / Insensible,

1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC, lines 774-777:

Learn to bear your Husband’s Death like a reasonable Woman. ’Tis not the fashion, now-a-days so much as to affect Sorrow upon these Occasions. No Woman would ever marry, if she had not the Chance of Mortality for a Release.

1728, [John] Gay, The Beggar’s Opera. […], London: […] John Watts, […], →OCLC, Act II, scene xi, page 37:

[…] like a sexton delving into a grave, possibly in quest of a jewel that had been buried on the dead man’s bosom, but likely to find nothing save mortality and corruption.

1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne, chapter X, in The Scarlet Letter, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC, page 154:

[…] the moldy odor of mortality hung wet in the air with the sulphurous fog […]

1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, chapter X, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 112: