(v. i.) The cessation of all vital phenomena without capability of resuscitation, either in animals or plants.
(v. i.) Total privation or loss; extinction; cessation; as, the death of memory.
(v. i.) Manner of dying; act or state of passing from life.
(v. i.) Cause of loss of life.
(v. i.) Personified: The destroyer of life, -- conventionally represented as a skeleton with a scythe.
(v. i.) Danger of death.
(v. i.) Murder; murderous character.
(v. i.) Loss of spiritual life.
(v. i.) Anything so dreadful as to be like death.
Example Sentences:
(1) Direct fetal digitalization led to a reduction in umbilical artery resistance, a decline in the abdominal circumference from 20.3 to 17.8 cm, and resolution of the ascites within 72 h. Despite this dramatic response to therapy, fetal death occurred on day 5 of treatment.
(2) Life expectancy and the infant mortality rate are considered more useful from an operational perspective and for comparisons than is the crude death rate because they are not influenced by age structure.
(3) Electrophysiologic studies are indicated in patients with sustained paroxysmal ventricular tachycardia, ventricular fibrillation or aborted sudden death.
(4) This death is also dependent on the presence of chloride and is prevented with the non-selective EAA antagonist, kynurenic acid, but is not prevented by QA.
(5) Insensitive variants die more slowly than wild type cells, with 10-20% cell death observed within 24 h after addition of dexamethasone.
(6) Whereas strain Ga-1 was practically avirulent for mice, strain KL-1 produced death by 21 days in 50% of the mice inoculated.
(7) The strongest predictor of non-sudden cardiac death was the New York Heart Association functional class.
(8) There was one complication (4.8%) from PCD (pneumothorax) and no deaths in this group.
(9) In the case presented, overdistension of a jejunostomy catheter balloon led to intestinal obstruction and pressure necrosis (of the small bowel), with subsequent abscess formation leading to death from septicemia.
(10) We report a case of a sudden death in a SCUBA diver working at a water treatment facility.
(11) The dangers caused by PM10s was highlighted in the Rogers review of local authority regulatory services, published in 2007, which said poor air quality contributed to between 12,000 and 24,000 premature deaths each year.
(12) Diphenoxylate-induced hypoxia was the major problem and was associated with slow or fast respirations, hypotonia or rigidity, cardiac arrest, and in 3 cases cerebral edema and death.
(13) In addition to the 89 cases of sudden and unexpected death before the age of 50 (preceded by some modification of the patient's life style in 29 cases), 11 cases were symptomatic and 5 were transplanted with a good result.
(14) The four deaths were not related to the injuries of parenchymatous organs.
(15) Four patients died while maintained on PD; three deaths were due to complications of liver failure within the first 4 months of PD and the fourth was due to empyema after 4 years of PD.
(16) There were no deaths attributable to the treatment.
(17) The first patient, an 82-year-old woman, developed a WPW syndrome suggesting posterior right ventricular preexcitation, a pattern which persisted for four months until her death.
(18) The Pan American Health Organization, the Americas arm of the World Health Organization, estimated the deaths from Tuesday's magnitude 7 quake at between 50,000 and 100,000, but said that was a "huge guess".
(19) This death toll represents 25% of avoidable adult deaths in developing countries.
(20) Serum sialic acid concentration predicts both death from CHD and stroke in men and women independent of age.
Salvation
Definition:
(n.) The act of saving; preservation or deliverance from destruction, danger, or great calamity.
(n.) The redemption of man from the bondage of sin and liability to eternal death, and the conferring on him of everlasting happiness.
(n.) Saving power; that which saves.
Example Sentences:
(1) This is a moral swamp, but it's one the Salvation Army claims to be stepping into out of charity .
(2) She says even before the SBS report went to air she had tried to alert her boss at the Salvation Army to the abuse, because she felt staff at the centre were not doing all they could to prevent it from happening again.
(3) About 100 people put in résumés for a casual – and low-paid – job at the Salvation Army homeless shelter.
(4) In tracts and treatises they furiously debated such issues as the nature of man, the powers of God, and the true path to salvation.
(5) According to internet security experts our salvation lies in passwords.
(6) One is why people become entranced by the idea of the end of times, and the other is how they make sense after the event, when the predictions of salvation and catastrophe have failed to materialise.
(7) For the Salvation Army and the careworn guys outside the unused Saint Martin station, however, there are much more important priorities.
(8) In Australia, where an estimated 54,000 of Asia-Pacific’s 21 million-plus domestic workers are based, a Salvation Army report catalogued 16-hour days without breaks, non-payment of wages and physical violence.
(9) As evidence of this new-found fondness, the album features a guest appearance from a local Salvation Army band.
(10) Born into a Salvation Army family, Taylor became a "junior soldier" aged five, pledging allegiance to the charity – the organisation has a military-style structure – and by 16, she was a senior soldier.
(11) That television news report by the BBC's Michael Buerk in 1984 framed Ethiopia for a generation as a place of famine and in need of salvation.
(12) In July, PNG police arrested G4S guard Louie Efi and Salvation Army worker Joshua Kaluvia, charging them both with Barati’s murder.
(13) Community groups such as the Salvation Army have warned: “These laws will disproportionately affect marginalised young people, people experiencing homelessness, poverty and mental health issues.” They fear that the vulnerable people might be excluded from public spaces by the new system, but have nowhere else to go, and find themselves imprisoned as a result.
(14) Passages in the Bible attribute one and the same 'life' ('soul') to both (Book of Proverbs 12: 10) and presuppose 'salvation' or 'preservation' of the two (Psalm 36:7c).
(15) We’re not very kind to people who come up with their hand out and say, ‘Where’s your shelter?’” Indeed, every day, newcomers to Williston get off the bus or train and wander up Main Street to the Salvation Army, expecting to stay there while they find work or an apartment.
(16) Sure enough, a block later, there are a group of people waiting for the doors of the Salvation Army to open at 10pm.
(17) Tory grandees visibly winced on television as the scale of the defeat sank in - and Basildon, symbol of their salvation among Essex voters in 1992, went Labour on a 15 per cent swing.
(18) Suddenly, China’s stock exchanges have become wards of the Chinese Communist party – and their fate hardly bodes well for Xi’s declaration that the nation’s economic salvation will lie in allowing market forces to play a greater role in the allocation of resources.
(19) She recalls being pleased when an older male Salvation Army member was friendly at the charity's local youth club.
(20) It felt like an adventure.” In London, Ali Abuzeid helped to set up the National Front for the Salvation of Libya.