angel of death

Definitions

1. A personification of death in fiction, art, mythology, or religion.
2. An angel which attends to death, collecting souls at death, ending life at the appointed time of death.
3. An angel in Abrahamic scripture or eschatology that attends to death.
4. Azrael.
5. Death, one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
6. The Grim Reaper.
7. A shinigami.
8. A type of serial killer who is employed as a caregiver and kills people under their care.
9. Synonym of destroying angel (“a type of mushroom”).

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Examples

“New evidence could lead⟳ to the freeing of a nurse known as the “angel of death” who was convicted of killing four patients.”

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