Death (vocabulary)

afterlife - posmrtný život, život po životě

noun - life after death

ashes - popel

noun - the powder that's left when the body of a dead person is cremated

assassin - úkladný vrah, atentátník

noun - somebody who kills an important or famous person (esp. for money or other purposes)

autopsy - pitva

noun - the act of opening the body of a dead person to find out why they died

burial - pohřeb, pohřbení

noun - the act of putting a dead person's body in the ground

bury - pohřbít

verb - to put a dead person's body in the ground

cemetery - hřbitov

noun - a place with many graves of people

coffin - rakev

noun - a wooden box where a dead body is put

condolence - soustrast, upřímná soustrast

noun - an expression of sympathy for somebody, whose family member or friend has died

corpse - mrtvola

noun - a dead body

dead - mrtvý, mrtev

adjective - not alive

deadly - smrtelný, smrtící

adjective - causing death, poisonous or extremely harmful

death - smrt, úmrtí

noun - the end of life, opposite of 'life'

death sentence - trest smrti, rozsudek smrti, odsouzení k smrti

noun - a punishment of being killed for a serious crime

die - zemřít, umřít

verb - to stop living, to become dead

drown - utopit, utopit se

verb - to die by being underwater and unable to breathe, to let somebody die in this way

execute - popravit

verb - to kill somebody as a legal punishment

executioner - popravčí, kat

noun - a person whose job is to kill somebody who was sentenced to death

funeral - pohřeb

noun - a ceremony concerning the burial of a dead person

funeral notice - smuteční oznámení, parte

noun - an announcement of someone's passing away, usually published in the papers by the family of the deceased

ghost - duch

noun - a visible form of a dead person that can usually fly and go through walls etc.

grave - hrob, hrobka

noun - a place in the cemetery where a dead body is buried

Grim Reaper - Smrtka, Smrťák

noun - a supernatural being that looks like a human skeleton and carries a scythe

hearse - pohřební vůz, pohřebák (auto)

noun - a vehicle that carries a dead person in a coffin to a funeral

heaven - nebe, nebesa

noun - the place where a god lives or where he takes good people after they die

hell - peklo

noun - a place where the devil lives or where bad people are believed to go after they die

kill - zabít

verb - to end somebody's life

manslaughter - zabití

noun - the crime of killing a person (by accident, not intentionally)

morgue - márnice

noun - a room or a house where dead bodies are stored before they are buried

mourn - oplakávat, truchlit, naříkat

verb - to cry and be very sad for somebody who has died or something which has been lost

murder - zavraždit

verb - to kill somebody deliberately

murderer - vrah

noun - a person who killed somebody deliberately

obituary - nekrolog, smuteční oznámení (v novinách)

noun - an article in the newspaper about a person who has recently died, usually includes information about their life, about their significance etc.

orphan - sirotek

noun - a child who has lost both parents

pass away - zemřít, zesnout

verb - a more sensitive way of saying "to die"

suicide - sebevražda

noun - the act in which a person kills himself/herself deliberately

terminal - smrtelný (např. choroba)

adjective - (of a disease) resulting in death, ending in death

undertaker - pohřebák, obstaravatel pohřbů, funebrák

noun - a person whose job is to organize funerals and prepare dead bodies for burial

victim - oběť

noun - a person who is hurt or killed in an accident etc; a person against whom a crime has been committed

widow - vdova

noun - a woman whose husband has died

widower - vdovec

noun - a man whose wife has died

will - poslední vůle, závěť

noun - a document where a person states who should get his property after he/she dies