deaths
- 1Plural of death.
The report recorded a sharp rise in traffic deaths last year.
Health officials linked the deaths to contaminated water.
Note
The plural exists because death is countable as well as uncountable. In the singular it can name the condition itself (fear of death). The plural always counts events: individual deaths tallied in a report, a statistic or a news story. That is why it sits naturally beside numbers and modifiers, as in three deaths or deaths from disease. The figurative 'collapse' meaning takes the plural too: the deaths of old industries.
deaths is a form of death
death, noun: The permanent end of life in a person, animal, plant or cell, when it can no longer carry out the functions that keep it alive. Full entry
- Forms
- deathdeaths plural
- Spelling
- death → deaths: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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