death vs sleep

death and sleep both are nouns.

death is not a verb while sleep is a verb.

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

As nouns, sleep is a hyponym of death; that is, sleep is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than death:

death: the absence of life or state of being dead
sleep: euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb)

Other hyponyms of death include eternal rest, eternal sleep, quietus, rest, defunctness, extinction, neonatal death, cot death, crib death, infant death, SIDS, sudden infant death syndrome.

death (noun)	sleep (noun)
the act of killing	a natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended
the event of dying or departure from life	euphemisms for death (based on an analogy between lying in a bed and in a tomb)
the permanent end of all life functions in an organism or part of an organism	a torpid state resembling deep sleep
the absence of life or state of being dead	a period of time spent sleeping
a final state
the time when something ends
the time at which life ends; continuing until dead

death (verb)	sleep (verb)
	be asleep
	be able to accommodate for sleeping

Difference between death and sleep

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