decease
Noun · VerbUS[dih-sees]/dɪˈsis/2 syllables
Synonyms:
deathexpirydieperishgoexitpass awayexpirepasskick the bucketcash in one's chipsbuy the farm
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Noun (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”Synonyms: deathexpiryType of change, alterationKinds passing, fatality, wrongful death, martyrdom, megadeathExamples Crucifixion of Jesus, Crucifixion
Verb (1)deceased, deceasing
- 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”Synonyms: dieperishgoexitpass awayexpirepasskick the bucketcash in one's chipsbuy the farmconkgive-up the ghostdrop deadpop offchokecroaksnuff itMore general change state, turnMore specific starve, fall, drown, buy it, suffocate, succumb, abort, predeceaseSimilar fail, die
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
De·cease′ noun
Origin: OE. deses, deces, F. décès, fr. L. decessus departure, death, fr. decedere to depart, die; de- + cedere to withdraw. See Cease, Cede.
Departure, especially departure from this life; death.
His decease, which he should accomplish at Jerusalem.— Luke ix. 31.
And I, the whilst you mourn for his decease, Will with my mourning plaints your plaint increase.— Edmund Spenser
Synonyms: Death; departure; dissolution; demise; release. See Death.
De·cease′ intransitive verb [past tense & past participle Deceased; present participle & verbal noun Deceasing.]
To depart from this life; to die; to pass away.
She's dead, deceased, she's dead.— William Shakespeare
When our summers have deceased.— Alfred Tennyson
Inasmuch as he carries the malignity and the lie with him, he so far deceases from nature.— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54