WRONGFUL DEATH

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A death that results from a wrongful act or from negligence; a death that can serve as the basis for a civil action for damages on behalf of the dead person's family or heirs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Hypernyms ("wrongful death" is a kind of...):

death; decease; expiry (the event of dying or departure from life)

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