natural death


noun
  1. death that occurs from natural causes, as disease or old age, rather than from violence or an accident.

Origin of natural death

1
First recorded in 1570–80

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How to use natural death in a sentence

  • If this proposal is agreeable to you, we must think of acting so that my brother should appear to have died a natural death.

  • Your master's body is contained in these two bundles, and our business is, to bury him as if he had died a natural death.