na. | 1. take death calmly (like"going home"); defy death; look death calmly in the face; face death unflinchingly; face death with no regrets [with equanimity]; face death calmly; look upon death as going home [as nothing]; willingly to walk to one's death; affront death; make no more of dying than of going home; Death is only a homegoing.; face death with a smile |