death vs alteration

alteration vs death

death and alteration both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
death	Yes	No	No	No
alteration	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, alteration is a hypernym of death; that is, alteration is a word with a broader meaning than death:

death: the event of dying or departure from life
alteration: an event that occurs when something passes from one state or phase to another

Other hypernyms of death include change, modification.

death (noun)	alteration (noun)
the act of killing	the act of revising or altering (involving reconsideration and modification)
the event of dying or departure from life	the act of making something different (as e.g. the size of a garment)
the permanent end of all life functions in an organism or part of an organism	an event that occurs when something passes from one state or phase to another
the absence of life or state of being dead
a final state
the time when something ends
the time at which life ends; continuing until dead

Difference between death and alteration

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