birth vs death

birth

Definitions

noun

  1. a baby born; an offspring
  2. the time when something begins (especially life)
  3. the event of being born
  4. the process of giving birth
  5. the kinship relation of an offspring to the parents

verb

  1. cause to be born

Examples

The birth of her son was a minor interruption to her career.

None of the fathers' job descriptions given on the birth certificate referred to work at a nuclear establishment.

Commissioned in 1963 to make a film about America's first successful quintuplet birth, Leacock and Joyce Chopra captured the quints' mother's anxiety at her sudden celebrity and the surrounding South Dakota community's eagerness to cash in on it.

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Death

Definitions

noun

  1. the personification of death

Examples

Sudden sniffing death is particularly associated with abuse of butane, propane and chemicals in aerosols.

He expressed his racial hatred for everyone, especially OBama making veiled death threats, spoke of other dangerous topics etc … and then offered to sell me a mosser rifle as he was buying a a whole shippment of them.

While the Irish government generates a lot of noisy, self-righteous cant about the evils of cigarettes at home, it makes a pretty packet from ‘selling death’ abroad.

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