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death

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Scipione kept this office
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until his death
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.

Savonarola visited Lorenzo on
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his death bed .

(countable, uncountable) 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.
(countable, uncountable) 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.
(capitalized, countable, often, uncountable) The personification of death as a (usually male) hooded figure with a scythe; the Grim Reaper.
(countable, uncountable) The collapse or end of something.
(countable, especially, figuratively, uncountable) The collapse or end of something.
(countable, figuratively, uncountable) Spiritual lifelessness.

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Pronounced as (IPA)

/dɛθ/

Inherited from Middle English

Inherited from Old English

Cognate with Western Frisian

Cognate with Dutch

Cognate with German

Cognate with Swedish

Cognate with Norwegian

In summary

From Middle English deeth, from Old English dēaþ, from Proto-West Germanic *dauþu, from Proto-Germanic *dauþuz (compare West Frisian dead, Dutch dood, German Tod, Swedish död, Norwegian død), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰówtus. More at die.