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死神 — meaning in English

shinigami

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English meaning

  • death noun The end of life; the permanent cessation of all vital functions in a living thing.

Senses

死神 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.
  • 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.
  • death (preceded by the) The collapse or end of something.

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.

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