brain deathnoun [ U ]
uk/ˈbreɪn ˌdeθ/us/ˈbreɪn ˌdeθ/the situation in which a person's brain stops working and they need machines in order to stay alive
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Death and dying
- be pushing up (the) daisies idiom
- bereave
- bite
- bury
- buy the farm idiom
- deceased
- depart
- done
- drop
- expire
- foot
- gone
- inquest
- peg
- posthumous
- road kill
- SIDS
- strike
- sudden infant death syndrome
- the disappeared
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