HUMAN DEATH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does human death mean? 

• HUMAN DEATH (noun)
  The noun HUMAN DEATH has 1 sense:

1. a death resulting from an accident or a disaster

  Familiarity information: HUMAN DEATH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HUMAN DEATH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A death resulting from an accident or a disaster

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

fatality; human death

Context example:

a decrease in the number of automobile fatalities

Hypernyms ("human death" is a kind of...):

death; decease; expiry (the event of dying or departure from life)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "human death"):

killing; violent death (an event that causes someone to die)

casualty; fatal accident (an accident that causes someone to die)

 Context examples 

A fully human monoclonal antibody directed against human death receptor 5 (DR5; TRAIL-R2; TNFRSF10B) with potential pro-apoptotic and antineoplastic activities.

(Apomab, NCI Thesaurus)