Collocations with death

death _noun

ADJECTIVES

sudden
・Monroe’s sudden death shocked the world.

tragic
・The newspapers carried the story of the tragic death of a child.

violent
・There is a high rate of violent death in the city.

painful
・At that time people with the disease faced a very painful death.

early
・His first marriage ended with the early death of his wife.

untimely
・He remained in charge of the company until his untimely death in 2004.

premature
・Smoking is a significant cause of premature death.

accidental
・The court decided that it was an accidental death.

suspicious, mysterious
・The police are investigating a suspicious death in the village.

lingering
・We do not want the animal to suffer a lingering death.

certain
・Many of the prisoners faced certain death.

VERBS

cause
・Police still don’t know what caused his death.

lead to, result in
・The delay in calling an ambulance may have resulted in her death.

mourn
・The entertainment world was last night mourning the actor’s death.

die
・At least he died a peaceful death at home with his family.

meet
・He met his death tragically while on holiday in Greece.

risk
・She risked death to save the lives of others.

escape
・He narrowly escaped death when he fell from a cliff while climbing.

NOUNS

toll
・The death toll from the earthquake could be as high as 3,000.

rate
・The death rate from heart attacks is about 50% higher for smokers.

penalty
・In the West, most countries have abolished the death penalty.

sentence
・Because of his young age, the judge decided not to impose a death sentence.

row
・He spent ten years on death row before being executed.

threat
・The writer had received a number of death threats.

squad
・Party members had been murdered by the president’s death squads.

wish
・He drank more than two bottles of whisky a day, as if he had some kind of death wish.

PREPOSITIONS

of
・The death of the princess caused a huge display of public grief.

from
・The number of deaths from cancer is falling steadily.

by
・She was guilty of causing death by poisoning.

PHRASES

bleed/freeze/burn/starve to death
・Thousands of people are starving to death.

stab/beat/kick sb to death
・He was stabbed to death in an attack outside his home.

be put to death
・The rebels were defeated and their leaders put to death.

sentence/condemn sb to death
・Two men were sentenced to death for the killings.

the cause of death
・The cause of death was gunshot wounds.

a matter of life and/or death
・The decision to go to war is literally a matter of life and death.