Death vs Ill - What's the difference?
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The cessation of life and all associated processes; the end of an organism's existence as an entity independent from its environment and its return to an inert, nonliving state.
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*:They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect. And why else was he put away up there out of sight?—and so magnificent a brush as he had too..
*1900 , , (The House Behind the Cedars) , Ch.I:
*:"‘Death ,’" quoted Warwick, with whose mood the undertaker's remarks were in tune, "‘is the penalty that all must pay for the crime of living.’"
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(lb) The collapse or end of something.
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(label) Evil; wicked (of people).
* (Francis Atterbury) (1663-1732)
(label) Morally reprehensible (of behaviour etc.); blameworthy.
* 1999 , (George RR Martin), A Clash of Kings , Bantam 2011, p. 2:
Indicative of unkind or malevolent intentions; harsh, cruel.
Unpropitious, unkind, faulty, not up to reasonable standard.
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Unwell in terms of health or physical condition; sick.
Having an urge to vomit.
(label) Sublime, with the connotation of being so in a singularly creative way. [This sense sometimes declines in AAVE as ill', ''comparative'' '''iller''', ''superlative'' ' illest .]
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(label) Extremely bad (bad enough to make one ill). Generally used indirectly with to be .
Not well; imperfectly, badly; hardly.
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* 1994 , Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom , Abacus 2010, p. 541:
* 2006 , Julia Borossa (translator), Monique Canto-Sperber (quoted author), in (quoting author), ''Dead End Feminism , Polity, ISBN 9780745633800,
(often pluralized) Trouble; distress; misfortune; adversity.
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, title= Harm or injury.
Evil; moral wrongfulness.
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A physical ailment; an illness.
Unfavorable remarks or opinions.
(US, slang) PCP, phencyclidine.
As a proper noun death
is the personification of death, often a skeleton with a scythe, and one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse.As an adjective ill is
(label) evil; wicked (of people).As an adverb ill is
not well; imperfectly, badly; hardly.As a noun ill is
(often pluralized) trouble; distress; misfortune; adversity.death
English
(wikipedia death)Alternative forms
* (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)Philip J. Bushnell
Solvents, Ethanol, Car Crashes & Tolerance, passage=Furthermore, this increase in risk is comparable to the risk of death from leukemia after long-term exposure to benzene, another solvent, which has the well-known property of causing this type of cancer.}}
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* accidental death * angel of death * at death's door * Black Death * brain death * cause of death * cell death * civil death * clinical death * cot death * dance of death * dead * deadly * death adder * death angel * death bell * death benefit * death by burning * death by fire * death camas * death camp * death cap * death certificate * death chair * death chamber * death cross * death cup * death drive * death duty * death growl * death house * death instinct * death knell * death march * death mask * death metal * death penalty * death phase * death put * death rate * death rattle * death ray * death roll * death row * death seat * death sentence * death spiral * death squad * death stick * death tax * death to * death toll * Death Valley * death warrant * death wish * death's-head * deathbird * deathblow * deathful * deathless * deathlike * deathly * deathmatch * deathsman * deathward * deathwatch * deathy * fan death * heat death * human death * infant death * instadeath * kiss of death * life-and-death * life-or-death * like death warmed over * living death * megadeath * near-death * put to death * screen death * sentence to death * sudden death * sudden infant death syndrome * valley of death * violent death * voodoo death * wrongful death (lookfrom)See also
* afterlife * die * the big one * the big sleep * cemetery * early grave * funeral * graveyard * morgue * mortal * mortician * mortuary * obituary * tombstone * cremationExternal links
*The Definition of Death- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
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* (l)ill
English
Adjective
(en-adj)- St. Paul chose to magnify his office when ill men conspired to lessen it.
- ‘Go bring her. It is ill to keep a lady waiting.’
- Biggie Smalls is the illest / Your style is played out, like Arnold wonderin "Whatchu talkin bout, Willis?"
Usage notes
* The comparative forms iller and illest are used in American English, but less than one fourth as frequently as the "more" and "most" forms.Synonyms
* (suffering from a disease''): diseased, poorly (''UK ), sick, under the weather (informal), unwell * (having an urge to vomit ): disgusted, nauseated, nauseous, sick, sickened * (bad ): bad, mal- * (in hip-hop slang: sublime ): dope * See alsoAntonyms
* (suffering from a disease ): fine, hale, healthy, in good health, well * (having an urge to vomit ): * (bad ): good * (in hip-hop slang: sublime ): wackDerived terms
* be ill * fall ill * ill at ease * ill effects * illness * ill wind * lie ill in one's mouth * mentally ill * be taken illReferences
Adverb
(en adverb)- In both groups, however, we find copious and intricate speciation so that, often, species limits are narrow and ill defined.
- His inflexibility and blindness ill become a leader, for a leader must temper justice with mercy.
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- Is it because this supposes an undifferentiated violence towards others and oneself that I could ill imagine in a woman?
Synonyms
* illyAntonyms
* wellDerived terms
* bode ill * ill afford * ill-formed * ill-gotten * ill-thought-outNoun
(en noun)- That makes us rather bear those ills we have / Than fly to others that we know not of.
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=Then he commenced to talk, really talk. and inside of two flaps of a herring's fin he had me mesmerized, like Eben Holt's boy at the town hall show. He talked about the ills of humanity, and the glories of health and Nature and service and land knows what all.}}
- Strong virtue, like strong nature, struggles still, / Exerts itself, and then throws off the ill .