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Definition of death : 1. Anything so dreadful as to be like death.
2. Cause of loss of life.
3. Danger of death.
4. Loss of spiritual life.
5. Manner of dying; act or state of passing from life.
6. Murder; murderous character.
7. Personified: The destroyer of life, - conventionally represented as a skeleton with a scythe.
8. The cessation of all vital phenomena without capability of resuscitation, either in animals or plants.
9. Total privation or loss; extinction; cessation; as, the death of memory.

Synonyms:

ruin, nothingness, bloodbath, carnage, expiry, curtains, curtain, purgatory, death throes, passage, lifelessness, dead, living, cobbler's last, separation, bereavement, tomb, afterlife, destruction, sleep, grave, slaughter, stopping point, loss, shoemaker's last, last, repose, morbidity, wipeout, holocaust, doom, withdrawal, deadness, euthanasia, heaven, necrosis, devastation, undoing, departure, beginning, live, great divide, darkness, butchery, existence, fate, death toll, hell, oddment, remnant, mortality, birth, life, closure, rest, final stage, oblivion, goal, casualty, paradise, death rate, remainder, ruination, demolition, dying

extinction, annihilation, passing, fatality, parting, quietus, decease, dissolution, release

nearly dead, wasting away

end, windup, finis, exit, period, completion, accomplishment, expiration, conclusion, cessation, finale, close, culmination, checkmate, halt, terminal, termination, closing, finish, ending, demise

Usage examples:

• You believe, if I understand you, that after your death you will meet her again. - "The Dark Forest", Hugh Walpole.
• " A dance of death? - "The Woman With The Fan", Robert Hichens.
• It will be a matter of life and death. - "Love's Usuries", Louis Creswicke.