Vocabulary
Mortality
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
the state of being subject to death.
Urdu meaning
شرح اموات، فانی ہونے کی حالت
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- Impact of floods: Floods, like the recent ones inPakistan, cause mass invertebrate mortality, as widespread floods and prolonged inundation drown or wash away vast numbers of terrestrial insects and their nests.
- Helping the family come to terms with the reality of a person`s mortality is a vital part of the physician`s job, too.
- The society also highlighted the detrimental impacts these crimes have on maternal health, increasing maternal mortality and morbidity figures in the country.
- This condemns these children to a life of physical disability, poverty and deprivation and also exposes them to premature mortality.
- It is not surprising that key health indicators like infant and child mortality that are closely linked to female education, have hardly shown improvement in the last decade.
Synonyms
impermanence, temporality, transience, ephemerality, impermanency, perishability
Curator example
“the work is increasingly haunted by thoughts of mortality”
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