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Morte — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • death noun The end of life; the permanent cessation of all vital functions in a living thing.
  • demise noun The end or downfall of something, especially in a gradual or unfortunate way.
  • departure noun The act of leaving a place, especially at the start of a journey.
  • doom noun A terrible fate that seems certain and impossible to avoid, especially death or destruction.
  • loss noun The state of no longer having something you once had.

Senses

Morte is used for these senses in English:

  • Death The personification of death, often a skeleton with a scythe, and one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse.
  • 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.
  • death (often, capitalized) The personification of death as a (usually male) hooded figure with a scythe; the Grim Reaper.
  • demise (countable) Death.
  • departure (euphemism) A death.
  • doom Death.
  • loss (countable) The death of a person or animal.

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.

demise — full definition

  1. noun The end or downfall of something, especially in a gradual or unfortunate way.
  2. noun A formal or literary word for death.

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