deaths
Lives coming undone
Deaths is the plural of death, meaning instances of dying or the ends of lives.
A disease might cause thousands of deaths.
In statistics and reporting, deaths often appears as a count: The accident resulted in three deaths.
Death in the singular names the state or concept; deaths names specific occurrences.
Intense sorrow from loss
- bereavementState following loss
- funeralService honoring the dead
- eulogyTribute for the dead
- wakePath left in water
condolences · memorial · obituary · casket · grave · cremation · burial · hearse
State of eventual death
- fatalityDeath from accident
- epidemiologyStudy of disease spread
- incidenceRate of occurrence
- prevalenceState of being widespread
demographics · actuarial · causes · trends · coroner · census · morbidity · toll
Systematic annihilation of a people
- massacreLarge-scale unlawful killing
- holocaustLarge-scale fiery destruction
- epidemicWidespread disease occurrence
- pandemicGlobal disease outbreak
famine · war · casualties · toll · atrocity · carnage · plague · catastrophe
State of eventual death
- fatePredetermined course of events
- destinyPredetermined course of events
- finalityState of conclusive completion
- transienceBrevity of existence
impermanence · ephemeral · terminal · end-of-life · inescapable · certainty · doom · life-cycle
Intense sorrow from loss
- bereavementState following loss
- heartacheDeep emotional distress
- sorrowDeep emotional distress
- anguishIntense mental suffering
void · absence · emptiness · orphaned · widowed · desolation · tragedy · devastation
grief
Intense sorrow from loss
- bereavementState following loss
- funeralService honoring the dead
- eulogyTribute for the dead
wake · condolences · memorial · obituary · casket · grave · cremation · burial · hearse · shiva
mortality
State of eventual death
- fatalityDeath from accident
- epidemiologyStudy of disease spread
- incidenceRate of occurrence
prevalence · demographics · actuarial · causes · trends · coroner · census · morbidity · toll · casualties
genocide
Systematic annihilation of a people
- massacreLarge-scale unlawful killing
- holocaustLarge-scale fiery destruction
- epidemicWidespread disease occurrence
pandemic · famine · war · casualties · toll · atrocity · carnage · plague · catastrophe · disaster
mortality
State of eventual death
- fatePredetermined course of events
- destinyPredetermined course of events
- finalityState of conclusive completion
transience · impermanence · ephemeral · terminal · end-of-life · inescapable · certainty · doom · life-cycle · finite
grief
Intense sorrow from loss
- bereavementState following loss
- heartacheDeep emotional distress
- sorrowDeep emotional distress
anguish · void · absence · emptiness · orphaned · widowed · desolation · tragedy · devastation · deprivation
heaven
Sky or bliss
- hellUnderworld of suffering
- reincarnationSoul's rebirth after death
- soulInnermost animating essence
eternity · purgatory · nirvana · paradise · limbo · resurrection · judgment · karma · salvation · underworld
- prison riotsuprising, lockdown, inmates, guards, hostages
- mortalitydeceased, mortality, mortality rates, dying, demise
- newspaper sectionsnews, sports, editorial, business, classifieds
- high societygossip, socialites, socialite, aristocrats, aristocrat
- genealogyfamily trees, family history, descendants, ancestors, ancestry tracing
- statisticsmean, median, mode, variance, standard deviation
deathsbirths
Acts of being born
conceptions · beginnings · arrivals · creations · emergences
- scared to deathExtremely frightened
- life and deathMatters of survival
- life or deathMaximally high stakes
- death sentenceJudicial order of execution
- to deathTo an extreme degree
- death threatStated intent to murder
death, deathly, deathless, deathbed, deathblow, death certificate, deathtrap, death rate