Important One Word Substitution List
Single Word
One Word Substitution List For Competitive Exams
One Word Substitution/DEATH
- Fainting or death due to being deprived of air...Asphyxia
- The dead body of a human being...Corpse
- The dead body of animal....Carcass
- A frame on which a dead body is conveyed...Bier
- A pile of wood on which a dead body is burned....Pyre
- A vehicle for taking dead bodies to the cemetery...Hearse
- A place where dead bodies are interred....Cemetery
- An examination of a dead body....Post-mortem
- Occurring after death.....Posthumous
- An inscription on a tomb....Epitaph
- A vault beneath a church used for burial.....Crypt
- A stone coffin, especially one made of limestone....Sarcophagus
- Underground caves with burying places
- for the dead....Catacombs
- Dead and decaying flesh .....Carrion
- A place where dead bodies are temporarily placed..... Mortuary
- A place where the bodies of persons found dead are placed for identification.....Morgue
- Disposal of a dead body by burning.....Cremation
- To preserve a dead body from putrefaction.....Embalm
- The cloth which is wrapped round a dead body.....Winding-sheet
- To dig up a corpse.....Exhume
- A very expensive and elaborately built tomb.....Mausoleum
- The practice of putting painlessly to death.....Euthanasia
- An account in the newspaper of the funeral of one..... obituary
- To die, without leaving a will.....Intestate
- The property left to someone by a will....Legacy
- Mass for the dead.....Requiem
- The act of killing oneself....Suicide
- The act of killing a human being.....Homicide
- Murder of a new-born child.....Infanticide
- Murder of a brother........Fratricide
- Murder of sister...Sororicide
- Murder of mother.......Matricide
- Murder of father........Patricide
- Murder of a parent......Parricide
- Murder of a king......Regicide
- Rising from the dead....Resurrection
- A monument set up for persons who are buried elsewhere.......Cenotaph
- Killed by an electric current.......Electrocuted
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