Now updated for CSW19. New words, if any, and new inflections of existing words, are shown in red.
athanasy | deathlessness. |
caducity | the quality of being transitory or perishable. |
cremains | the ashes that remain after cremation of a corpse. |
dead | not alive (noun) people who have died; (verb, obs.) to lose vitality, become numb |
death | the end of life. |
deathbed | the bed on which a person dies. |
deathblow | a fatal blow. |
deathless | not subject to death. |
deathlike | like death. |
deathliness | the state of being deathly. |
deathly | like death. |
deathy | fatal, bringing death. |
decease | death; (verb) to die. |
defunct | dead; (noun) a dead person. |
defunction | (Shakesp.) death. |
defunctive | relating to the dead. |
defunctness | the state of being defunct. |
deid | (Scots) dead (noun) death |
die | a shaped block used to shape metal a dice (verb) to depart from life to cut or shape with a die |
dieoff | a dying off of vegetation. |
dyingly | (Adv.) DYING, fading. |
dyingness | the state of dying or the simulation of such a state. |
evanish | to vanish, die away. |
expirable | that may expire or come to an end. |
expirant | one who expires or is expiring. |
expire | to come to an end. |
expirer | one who expires. |
expiry | expiration; death. |
fatal | causing or capable of causing death. |
fatality | a death resulting from an unexpected occurrence. |
fatally | (Adv.) FATAL, causing or capable of causing death. |
fatalness | the quality of being fatal. |
flatline | to die or be so near death that the display of one's vital signs on medical equipment shows a flat line rather than peaks or troughs. |
flatliner | one who flatlines. |
forfair | (Obs.) to perish or decay. |
forpine | (Spenser) to waste away completely by suffering or torment. |
immarcescible | unfading; imperishable. |
immortal | not subject to death (noun) one who is not subject to death |
immortality | the state of being immortal. |
immortally | (Adv.) IMMORTAL, not subject to death. |
kark | (Aust. sl.) to break down, die. |
moribund | being about to die. |
moribundity | the state of being moribund. |
moribundly | (Adv.) MORIBUND, being about to die. |
morkin | an animal that has died by accident. |
morling | a sheep that has died from disease. |
mortal | fatal (noun) a human being |
mortally | (Adv.) MORTAL, fatal. |
mortific | death-bringing, deadly. |
mortling | a sheep that has died from disease. |
obiit | (Lat.) died. |
perish | to die. |
perishable | liable to perish (noun) something liable to perish |
perishably | (Adv.) PERISHABLE, liable to perish. |
perishing | freezing cold. |
perishingly | (Adv.) PERISHING. |
predecease | to die sooner than. |
sterve | (Spenser) to starve, die. |
swelt | (Dial.) to die, to faint. |
thanatoid | apparently dead; deathly; deadly. |
undying | not subject to death. |
undyingly | (Adv.) UNDYING, not subject to death. |
unperished | not perished. |