[syn: die, decease, perish, go, exit, pass away, expire, pass, kick the bucket, cash in one's chips, buy the farm, conk, give-up the ghost, drop dead, pop off, choke, croak, snuff it]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Decease \De*cease"\, n. [OE. deses, deces, F. d['e]c[`e]s, fr.
L. decessus departure, death, fr. decedere to depart, die;
de- + cedere to withdraw. See Cease, Cede.]
Departure, especially departure from this life; death.
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His decease, which he should accomplish at Jerusalem.
--Luke ix. 31.
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And I, the whilst you mourn for his decease,
Will with my mourning plaints your plaint increase.
--Spenser.
Syn: Death; departure; dissolution; demise; release. See
Death.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Decease \De*cease"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Deceased; p. pr. &
vb. n. Deceasing.]
To depart from this life; to die; to pass away.
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She's dead, deceased, she's dead. --Shak.
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When our summers have deceased. --Tennyson.
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Inasmuch as he carries the malignity and the lie with
him, he so far deceases from nature. --Emerson.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
decease
n 1: 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" [syn: death, decease,
expiry] [ant: birth, nascence, nascency,
nativity]
v 1: pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and
functions necessary to sustain life; "She died from
cancer"; "The children perished in the fire"; "The patient
went peacefully"; "The old guy kicked the bucket at the age
of 102" [syn: die, decease, perish, go, exit,
pass away, expire, pass, kick the bucket, cash in
one's chips, buy the farm, conk, give-up the ghost,
drop dead, pop off, choke, croak, snuff it] [ant:
be born]