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| Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922. |
| Class III. Words Relating to Matter |
| Section III. Organic Matter |
| 1. Vitality |
| 1. Vitality in general |
| 360. Death. |
| NOUN: | DEATH; decease, demise; mortality; dying; passing -away, - of the soul; dissolution, departure, obit, release, rest, eternal rest, quietus, fall; loss, bereavement. end [See End] -, cessation [See Cessation] -, loss -, extinction -, ebb- of life [See Life]. DEATH-WARRANT, deathwatch, death rattle, deathbed; stroke -, agonies -, shades -, valley of the shadow -, summons -, jaws -, hand -, bridge -, river- of death; Jordan, Jordan’s bank, “one more river to cross”; last -breath, - gasp, - agonies; dying -day, - breath, - agonies; swan song, chant du cygne [F.]; rigor mortis [L.]; Stygian shore; “crossing the bar” [Tennyson]; the great adventure. euthanasia, euthanasy [rare]; happy release, bona mors [L.]; break-up of the system; natural -death, - decay; sudden -, violent- death; untimely end, taking off [colloq.], watery grave; debt of nature; mortification, heart failure, suffocation, asphyxia; fatal disease (disease) [See Disease]; deathblow (killing) [See Killing]. ANGEL OF DEATH, death’s bright angel, Azrael; King -of terrors, - Death; Death, doom (necessity) [See Necessity]; “Hell’s grim Tyrant” [Pope]. NECROLOGY, bills of mortality, obituary. DEATH SONG (lamentation) [See Lamentation]. |
| VERB: | DIE, expire, perish; meet one’s -death, - end; pass away, pass over, be taken; yield -, resign- one’s breath; resign one’s -being, - life; end one’s -days, - life, - earthly career; breathe one’s last; cease to -live, - breathe; depart this life; be no more &c. adj.; go off [colloq.], drop off [colloq.], pop off [slang]; lose -, lay down -, relinquish -, surrender- one’s life; drop -, sink- into the grave; close one’s eyes; fall -, drop- -dead, - down dead; break one’s neck; give -, yield- up the ghost; be all over with one. pay the debt to nature, shuffle off this mortal coil, take one’s last sleep; go the way of all flesh; hand -, pass- -in one’s checks, - in one’s chips [all slang]; go over to the -, join the- -greater number, - majority, - great majority; join the choir invisible; awake to life immortal; come -, turn- to dust; give an obolus to Charon; cross the Stygian ferry; go to one’s long account, go to one’s last home, go to Davy Jones’s locker, go to glory [colloq. or slang]; receive one’s death warrant, make one’s will, step out [colloq.], die a natural death, go out like the snuff of a candle; come to an untimely end; catch one’s death; go off the hooks, kick the bucket, hop the twig, turn up one’s toes [all slang]; die a violent death &c. (be killed) [See Killing]. die for one’s country, make the supreme sacrifice, go West [World War euphemism]. |
| ADJECTIVE: | DEAD, lifeless; deceased, demised, departed, defunct; late, gone, no more; exanimate [rare], inanimate; out of the world, taken off, released; bereft of life; stone dead; departed this life &c. v.; dead and gone; dead as -a doornail, - a doorpost, - mutton, - a herring, - nits [all slang or colloq.]; launched into eternity, gathered to one’s fathers, numbered with the dead; born into a better world, born into the next world; gone to a better land; dying -, dead- in the Lord; asleep in Jesus; with the saints. stillborn; mortuary; deadly (killing) [See Killing]. DYING &c. v.; moribund, morient [obs.]; Hippocratic; in articulo [L.], in extremis [L.]; in the -jaws, - agony- of death; going, - off; aux abois [F.]; on one’s -last legs [colloq.], - deathbed; at the point of death, at death’s door, at the last gasp; near one’s end, given up, given over, booked [slang]; with one foot in -, tottering on the brink of- the grave. |
| ADVERB: | post obit [L.], post mortem [L.]. |
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