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  • proper noun The personification of death, often a skeleton with a scythe.

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Examples

  • Immigrant Detention in US Can Be 'Death Trap' yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'Immigrant Detention in US Can Be \'Death Trap\' '; yahooBuzzArticleSummary =' Article: A Washington Post investigation, joined by 60 Minutes, has found disturbing evidence that immigrants are suffering from neglect and some don\'t survive detention in America.

    Immigrant Detention in US Can Be 'Death Trap' 2008

  • DEATH WALKED IN Morrow March 25 2008 -18th in the Death on Demand series.

    Congratulations to Bill Pronzini; News from Carolyn Hart Ed Gorman 2007

  • A few hundred million insane bloodthirsty Arabs and other followers of the death cult of Islam calling for Death to Israel and Death to America: what better way to appease them than writing a book that the authors hope will cause the U.S. to hang Israel out to dry in the face of genocidal maniacs, groups and countries like Hezbollah, Hamas, Ahmadinejad, Syria and Iran?

    Anti-semite or just making statements that no one likes? | Jewschool 2007

  • DEATH WALKED IN Morrow March 25 2008 -18th in the Death on Demand series.

    Archive 2007-11-01 Ed Gorman 2007

  • This can happen to any one of us and death, the last enemy may be destroyed, so that in us Christ says Death, where is your sting?

    Thy kingdom come Argent 2006

  • Life and death, like day and night, reigned in quiet concord over the earth during the last week of the year, but when New Year's night came, Death took his sceptre and announced that now old Mamsell Fredrika should belong to him.

    Invisible Links Selma Lagerl��f 1899

  • Osan High School in Seoul runs a four-hour program on death preparation -- ¡°Understanding Death, ¡± ¡°Writing Will and Epitaph¡± and ¡°Experiencing Death¡± are some of the topics.

    english.chosun.com : Total 2008

  • Osan High School in Seoul runs a four-hour program on death preparation -- ¡°Understanding Death, ¡± ¡°Writing Will and Epitaph¡± and ¡°Experiencing Death¡± are some of the topics.

    english.chosun.com : Total 2008

  • Osan High School in Seoul runs a four-hour program on death preparation -- ¡°Understanding Death, ¡± ¡°Writing Will and Epitaph¡± and ¡°Experiencing Death¡± are some of the topics.

    english.chosun.com : Total 2008

  • Osan High School in Seoul runs a four-hour program on death preparation -- ¡°Understanding Death, ¡± ¡°Writing Will and Epitaph¡± and ¡°Experiencing Death¡± are some of the topics.

    english.chosun.com : Total 2008

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