Appears in: Italian Pictures: July in Vallombrosa
Frequency: 4
Definition:
(noun) 1) The cessation of all vital phenomena without capability of resuscitation, either in animals or plants; 2) Total privation or loss; extinction; cessation; 3) Manner of dying; act or state of passing from life; 4) Cause of loss of life; 5) Personified: The destroyer of life,—conventionally represented as a skeleton with a scythe; 6) Danger of death; 7) Murder; murderous character; 8) (Theology) Loss of spiritual life; 9) Anything so dreadful as to be like death (MW)
