kill vs death

kill and death both are nouns.

kill is a verb but death is not a verb.

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

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

kill: the act of terminating a life
death: the act of killing

Other hyponyms of kill include coup de grace, deathblow, euthanasia, mercy killing, homicide, despatch, dispatch, fell, self-annihilation, self-destruction, suicide, slaughter, poisoning, asphyxiation, suffocation, ritual killing, sacrifice, electrocution, beheading, decapitation, genocide, race murder, racial extermination.

kill (noun)	death (noun)
the act of terminating a life	the act of killing
the destruction of an enemy plane or ship or tank or missile	the event of dying or departure from life
the body of an animal, or bodies of animals, killed by a person or another animal	the permanent end of all life functions in an organism or part of an organism
	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

kill (verb)	death (verb)
mark for deletion, rub off, or erase
destroy a vitally essential quality of or in
cause to cease operating
tire out completely
end or extinguish by forceful means
drink down entirely
cause to die; put to death, usually intentionally or knowingly
cause the death of, without intention
deprive of life
hit with great force
hit with so much force as to make a return impossible, in racket games
overwhelm with hilarity, pleasure, or admiration
be the source of great pain for
thwart the passage of
be fatal

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