Words and phrases that mean "death", "dead"

• A stiff
• At room temperature
• Be taken
• Belly-up - comes from fishing. A fish that's belly-up is dead.
  
• Below-ground
  
• Bereft of life
  
• Bite the big one
  
• Bite the dust
• Bloodless
• Bought the farm
• Breathless
• Bumped off
  
• Buried
  
• Buy a pine condo
  
• Cash in one's chips
• Cash out
  
• Ceased to be
• Checked out
  

• Cold
• Croaked
• Crossed over
• Curled up his tootsies
• Curtains
• Cut off
• Dead
• Dead as a doornail
  
• Deceased
• Demised
  
• Departed
• Dirt nap
  
• Done for
• Eat it
  
• Erased
  
• Ex-animate
  
• Expired
• Extinct
• Finished
  
• Flying with the angels
• Get your wings
  
• Give up the ghost
• Going to the _____ in the sky
  
• Gone
• Gone the way of all flesh
  
• Gone to a better place
• Gone to Davy Jones locker
  
• Gone to Heaven
• Gone to meet his maker
• Gone to one's narrow bed
• Gone to reward - Mark Twain in Life on the Mississippi (1883) wrote: "He went to his reward, whatever it was, two years ago." This is supposed to be the first recorded use of the phrase.
  
• Got a one way ticket
  
• In a better place
• In Heaven
• In repose
• In the grave
  
• Inactive
  
• Inanimate
• Inert
  
• Is no more
• Joined the choir invisible

• Kicked the bucket
• Laid to rest
• Late
  
• Lifeless
• Liquidated
• Lost
  
• Metabolic processes are now history
• No longer with us
• No more
  
• Not of this world
• Offed
• Out of one's misery
  
• Passed away
• Passed on
• Perished
  
• Pushing up the daisies
  
• Reposing
  
• Rest in peace
• Rubbed out
  
• Run down the curtain
• Shuffled off the mortal coil
• Six feet under
• Sleeping with the fishes

• Snuffed out
• Spiritless
  
• Sprouted wings
• Succumbed
  
• Swimming with the fishes
• To breathe one's last
• Unanimated
  
• Wacked
  
• With God
• With one's ancestors
  
• Worm food
  

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