Death

Other forms: Deaths

Definitions of Death
  1. noun
    the personification of death
    “Death walked the streets of the plague-bound city”
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    Grim Reaper
    Death personified as an old man or a skeleton with a scythe
    example of:
    imaginary being, imaginary creature
    a creature of the imagination; a person that exists only in legends or myths or fiction
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