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

Words Nearby natural death

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How to use natural death in a sentence

  • Unhappily the Duc d'Alencon, Catherine's last male child, had already died, a natural death.

    Catherine de' Medici | Honore de Balzac
  • It has been ridiculed so long that it should have died a natural death.

    Patchwork | Anna Balmer Myers
  • With characteristic mendacity, the duke spread the report that the prisoner had died a natural death.

  • 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.