Dearth vs. Death
Dearthnoun
A period or condition when food is rare and hence expensive; famine.
Dearthnoun
(by extension) Scarcity; a lack or short supply.
Dearthnoun
(obsolete) Dearness; the quality of being rare or costly.
Dearthnoun
Scarcity which renders dear; want; lack; specifically, lack of food on account of failure of crops; famine.
Dearthnoun
an acute insufficiency
Dearthnoun
an insufficient quantity or number
Deathnoun
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.
Deathnoun
The personification of death as a hooded figure with a scythe; the Grim Reaper.
Deathnoun
(the death) The collapse or end of something.
Deathnoun
(figuratively, esp. followed by of-phrase) A cause of great stress, exhaustion, embarrassment, or another negative condition (for someone).
Deathnoun
The cessation of all vital phenomena without capability of resuscitation, either in animals or plants.
Deathnoun
Total privation or loss; extinction; cessation; as, the death of memory.
Deathnoun
Manner of dying; act or state of passing from life.
Deathnoun
Cause of loss of life.
Deathnoun
Personified: The destroyer of life, - conventionally represented as a skeleton with a scythe.
Deathnoun
Danger of death.
Deathnoun
Murder; murderous character.
Deathnoun
Loss of spiritual life.
Deathnoun
Anything so dreadful as to be like death.
Deathnoun
the event of dying or departure from life;
Deathnoun
the permanent end of all life functions in an organism or part of an organism;
Deathnoun
the time at which life ends; continuing until dead;
Deathnoun
the personification of death;
Deathnoun
the absence of life or state of being dead;
Deathnoun
the time when something ends;
Deathnoun
the act of killing;
Deathnoun
a final state;
Death
Death is the permanent, irreversible cessation of all biological functions that sustain a living organism. Brain death is sometimes used as a legal definition of death.
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