Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun wrongful_death

1 sense of wrongful death

Sense 1
wrongful death -- (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)
       => death, decease, expiry -- (the event of dying or departure from life; "her death came as a terrible shock"; "upon your decease the capital will pass to your grandchildren")