ROGET'S THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES ...

[Science of life] physiology, biology; animal ecology.
nourishment, staff of life &c (food) 298.
genetics, heredity, inheritance, evolution, natural selection, reproduction (production)
161.
microbe, aerobe, anaerobe, facultative anaerobe, obligate aerobe, obligate anaerobe,
halophile [Micro.], methanogen [Micro.], archaebacteria [Micro.], microaerophile
[Micro.].
animal &c 366; vegetable &c 367.
artificial life, robot, robotics, artificial intelligence.
[vital signs] breathing, breathing rate, heartbeat, pulse, temperature.
preservation of life, healing (medicine) 662.
V. be alive &c adj.; live, breathe, respire; subsist &c (exist) 1; walk the earth, strut and
fret one's hour upon the stage [Macbeth]; be spared.
see the light, be born, come into the world, fetch breath, draw breath, fetch the breath
of life, draw the breath of life; quicken; revive; come to life.
give birth to &c (produce) 161; bring to life, put into life, vitalize; vivify, vivificate † ;
reanimate &c (restore) 660; keep alive, keep body and soul together, keep the wolf from
the door; support life.
hive nine lives like a cat.
Adj. living, alive; in life, in the flesh, in the land of the living; on this side of the grave,
above ground, breathing, quick, animated; animative † ; lively &c (active) 682; all alive
and kicking; tenacious of life; full of life, yeasty.
vital, vitalic † ; vivifying, vivified, &c v.; viable, zoetic † ; Promethean.
Adv. vivendi causa [Lat.].
Phr. atqui vivere militare est [Lat.] [Seneca]; non est vivere sed valere vita [Lat.]
[Marial].
360. Death -- N. death; decease, demise; dissolution, departure, obit, release, rest,
quietus, fall; loss, bereavement; mortality, morbidity.
end of life &c 67, cessation of life &c 142, loss of life, extinction of life, ebb of life
&c 359.
death warrant, death watch, death rattle, death bed; stroke of death, agonies of death,
shades of death, valley of death, jaws of death, hand of death; last breath, last gasp, last
agonies; dying day, dying breath, dying agonies; chant du cygne [Fr.]; rigor mortis
[Lat.]; Stygian shore.
King of terrors, King Death; Death; doom &c (necessity) 601; Hell's grim Tyrant
[Pope].
euthanasia; break up of the system; natural death, natural decay; sudden death, violent
death; untimely end, watery grave; debt of nature; suffocation, asphyxia; fatal disease &c
(disease) 655; death blow &c (killing) 361.
necrology, bills of mortality, obituary; death song &c (lamentation) 839.
V. die, expire, perish; meet one's death, meet one's end; pass away, be taken; yield one's
breath, resign one's breath; resign one's being, resign one's life; end one's days, end one's
life, end one's earthly career; breathe one's last; cease to live, cease to breathe; depart this
life; be no more &c adj.; go off, drop off, pop off; lose one's life, lay down one's life,
relinquish one's life, surrender one's life; drop into the grave, sink into the grave; close