死亡 — meaning in English

English meaning

• death noun The end of life; the permanent cessation of all vital functions in a living thing.
• decease noun Death, departure from life.
• shot noun The firing of a gun, or the result of firing it.

Senses

死亡 is used for these senses in English:

• Grim Reaper A personification of Death as an old man, or a skeleton, carrying a scythe, taking souls to the afterlife.
• angel of death A personification of death in fiction, art, mythology, or religion.
• death The cessation of life and all associated processes; the end of an organism's existence as an entity independent from its environment and its return to an inert, nonliving state.
• decease (formal) Death, departure from life.
• defunction (obsolete) Death.
• shot Tired, weary.

death — full definition

1. noun The end of life; the permanent cessation of all vital functions in a living thing.
2. noun The end or collapse of something non-living, used figuratively.
3. name The personification of death, traditionally shown as a hooded, skeletal figure carrying a scythe.

Related Chinese words