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Definition of Decease
1. Verb. Pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life. "The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102"
Exact synonyms: Buy The Farm, Cash In One's Chips, Choke, Conk, Croak, Die, Drop Dead, Exit, Expire, Give-up The Ghost, Go, Kick The Bucket, Pass, Pass Away, Perish, Pop Off, Snuff It
Specialized synonyms: Abort, Asphyxiate, Stifle, Suffocate, Buy It, Pip Out, Drown, Predecease, Famish, Starve, Fall, Succumb, Yield
Generic synonyms: Change State, Turn
Related verbs: Break, Break Down, Conk Out, Die, Fail, Give Out, Give Way, Go, Go Bad, Die
Derivative terms: Decedent, Death, Death, Death, Death, Death, Death, Exit, Expiration, Going, Passing
Antonyms: Be Born
Also: Die Down, Die Down, Die Off, Die Out
Specialized synonyms: Abort, Asphyxiate, Stifle, Suffocate, Buy It, Pip Out, Drown, Predecease, Famish, Starve, Fall, Succumb, Yield
Generic synonyms: Change State, Turn
Related verbs: Break, Break Down, Conk Out, Die, Fail, Give Out, Give Way, Go, Go Bad, Die
Derivative terms: Decedent, Death, Death, Death, Death, Death, Death, Exit, Expiration, Going, Passing
Antonyms: Be Born
Also: Die Down, Die Down, Die Off, Die Out
2. Noun. The event of dying or departure from life. "Upon your decease the capital will pass to your grandchildren"
Exact synonyms: Death, Expiry
Generic synonyms: Alteration, Change, Modification
Specialized synonyms: Crucifixion
Specialized synonyms: Fatality, Human Death, Martyrdom, Megadeath, Departure, Exit, Expiration, Going, Loss, Passing, Release, Wrongful Death
Antonyms: Birth
Derivative terms: Die, Die
Generic synonyms: Alteration, Change, Modification
Specialized synonyms: Crucifixion
Specialized synonyms: Fatality, Human Death, Martyrdom, Megadeath, Departure, Exit, Expiration, Going, Loss, Passing, Release, Wrongful Death
Antonyms: Birth
Derivative terms: Die, Die
Definition of Decease
1. n. Departure, especially departure from this life; death.
2. v. i. To depart from this life; to die; to pass away.
Definition of Decease
1. Noun. (formal) death ¹
2. Noun. (context: obsolescent) Departure, especially departure from this life ¹
3. Verb. (rare) To die. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Decease
1. to die [v -CEASED, -CEASING, -CEASES] - See also: die
Lexicographical Neighbors of Decease
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