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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | death |
| Synonyms: | acquittance, decease, discharge, dissolution, end, extinction, release, repose |
| Main Entry: | quietus |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | defeat |
| Synonyms: | clincher, coup de grace, final blow, overcoming, overthrow |
| Main Entry: | coup de grâce |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | finishing blow |
| Synonyms: | blow, clincher, comeuppance, deathblow, defeat, final blow, final stroke, kill, knockout, mercy stroke, mortal blow, quietus |
| Main Entry: | death |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | end of life |
| Synonyms: | afterlife, annihilation, bereavement, casualty, cessation, curtains, darkness, decease, demise, departure, destruction, dissolution, downfall, dying, end, ending, eradication, eternal rest, euthanasia, exit, expiration, extermination, extinction, fatality, finis, finish, grave, grim reaper, heaven, loss, mortality, necrosis, obliteration, oblivion, paradise, parting, passing, passing over, quietus, release, repose, ruin, ruination, silence, sleep, termination, tomb |
| Antonyms: | being, birth, entity, existence, life, living |
| Main Entry: | decease |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | death |
| Synonyms: | buying the farm, curtains, defunction, demise, departure, dissolution, dying, grim reaper, passing, passing away, passing over, quietus, release, silence, sleep, taps, the end |
| Notes: | decease is the event of dying or departure from life; disease is an impairment of health or a condition of abnormal and harmful functioning |
| Antonyms: | birth |
| Main Entry: | demise |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fate, usually death |
| Synonyms: | annihilation, collapse, curtains, decease, departure, dissolution, downfall, dying, end, ending, expiration, extinction, failure, fall, final thrill, last out, last roundup, lights out, number's up, passing, quietus, ruin, silence, sleep, termination |
| Notes: | demise is the time when something ends or death; surmise is a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete or little evidence |
| Antonyms: | birth |
| Main Entry: | dissolution |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | death; destruction |
| Synonyms: | adjournment, conclusion, curtains, decay, decease, decomposition, defunction, demise, disappearance, disbandment, discontinuation, dismissal, dispersal, end, ending, evaporation, extinction, finish, liquefaction, melting, overthrow, passing, quietus, release, resolution, ruin, silence, sleep, solution, suspension, termination |
| Antonyms: | beginning, commencement, construction, start |
| Main Entry: | settlement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | decision, conclusion |
| Synonyms: | adjustment, agreement, arrangement, clearance, compact, compensation, completion, conclusion, confirmation, contract, covenant, deal, defrayal, determination, discharge, disposition, establishment, happy medium, liquidation, pay, payment, payoff, quietus, reimbursement, remuneration, resolution, satisfaction, showdown, termination, trade-off, working out |
| Antonyms: | confusion, indecision |
| Main Entry: | silence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | absence of sound, speech |
| Synonyms: | blackout, calm, censorship, dead air, death, dumbness, hush, hush-hush, inarticulateness, iron curtain, laconism, lull, muteness, noiselessness, peace, quiescence, quiet, quietness, quietude, quietus, reserve, reticence, saturninity, secrecy, sleep, speechlessness, still, stillness, sulk, sullenness, taciturnity, uncommunicativeness |
| Antonyms: | clamor, communication, noise, talk |
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