violent death

1. 1.

   an event that causes someone to die

   Synonymskilling

   Broaderfatality

Questions about violent death

What does violent death mean?

violent death means "an event that causes someone to die".

What is another word for violent death?

Close synonyms include killing. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is violent death a common word?

violent death is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.