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.

Execution (in the judicial sense).

The personification of cessation of life as a (usually male) hooded figure with a scythe; the Grim Reaper.

The collapse or end of something.

(figuratively) A cause of great stress, exhaustion, embarrassment, or another negative condition (for someone).

(figurative) Spiritual lifelessness.