vocab dash

Vocabulary

dead person; death

Noun

dead

Adjective

article (a piece of nonfictional writing); article; merchandise, sales article; section (of a law); joint, articulation; moment (only in the phrase à l'article de la mort)

Noun

post-1990 spelling of croque-mort

Noun

mortal; deadly; wicked; cool; ace

Adjective

mortality

Noun

mortar (mixture for bonding building blocks); mortar (artillery); mortar (small bowl used to crush or grind food); mortarboard (academic's ceremonial headgear)

Noun

human, mortal

Noun

fatally, lethally, mortally (to the death)

Adverb

mortuary

Adjective

lethal; mortifying

Adjective

to mortify, humiliate

Verb

mortification

Noun

mortise / mortice

Noun

mortified

Adjective

mortadella

Noun

stillbirth

Noun

mortifying

Adjective

stillborn (dead at birth)

Adjective

stillborn

Noun

neap tide (the lowest tide)

Noun

incompetent person; quack (charlatan doctor)

Noun

Black Death

Noun

dead or alive

Adjective

sudden death

Noun

undead (those creatures which are dead yet still move)

Noun

on the prowl, super horny, thirsty, eager for sex, sexually frustrated

Adjective

social death (alienation of certain people from society to the point of being forgotten, excluded, or ignored in society)

Noun

dying laughing

Adjective

off-season

Noun

inheritable (by mortmain) (of a serf)

Adjective

clinical death

Noun

rat poison, ratsbane

Noun

stillbirth

Noun

mort cérébrale

brain death

Noun

mort aux vaches

synonym of hippobrome à longues fleurs (“star of Bethlehem”) (Hippobroma longiflora)

Noun

mort et enterré

dead and buried, dead as a dodo

Adjective

mort aux cabris

synonym of hippobrome à longues fleurs (“star of Bethlehem”) (Hippobroma longiflora)

Noun

mort subite du nourrisson

crib death, cot death, sudden infant death syndrome

Noun

morte la bête, mort le venin

dead dogs don't bite (a dead man isn't a threat anymore)

Proverb