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Angel of death

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

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

  2. 7
    Synonym of destroying angel (“a type of mushroom”).

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