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decease en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /dɪˈsiːs/
  • (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From Old French deces (Modern French décès), from Latin dēcessus (“departure”).

Meanings

  1. (countable, formal, uncountable) Death, departure from life.
    • So should that beauty which you hold in lease Find no determination: then you were Yourself again after yourself's decease […] 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 13”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:
    • I thought about my predecessor, who had died of drink and smoke; and I could have wished he had been so good as to live, and not bother me with his decease. 1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
deceases Number=Plur lexicographic

Synonyms

decomposition · quietus · celestial transfer · dirt nap · defunction · fall · tomb · exit · sleep of the just · (the) bane · mortality · crash · death · end · downfall · demise · decease · expiration · repose · sunset · quietus · demise · dematerialization · passing · liquidation · the big sleep · doom · (the) end · fatality

Translations (39)

bn মৃত্যু (departure, especially departure from this life; death) · nb bortgang (departure, especially departure from this life; death) · ca defunció (departure, especially departure from this life; death) · kmr mirin (departure, especially departure from this life; death) · nb død (departure, especially departure from this life; death) · kmr wefat (departure, especially departure from this life; death) · hy վախճան (departure, especially departure from this life; death) · ja 死去 (departure, especially departure from this life; death) · es óbito (departure, especially departure from this life; death) · es fallecimiento (departure, especially departure from this life; death) · fi kuolema (departure, especially departure from this life; death) · nl overlijden (departure, especially departure from this life; death) · ja 物故 (departure, especially departure from this life; death) · sv bortgång (departure, especially departure from this life; death) · es deceso (departure, especially departure from this life; death) · de Hinschied (departure, especially departure from this life; death) · bn ওফাত (departure, especially departure from this life; death) · ja 他界 (departure, especially departure from this life; death) · cs smrt (departure, especially departure from this life; death) · gl pasamento (departure, especially departure from this life; death) · pt falecimento (departure, especially departure from this life; death) · bg смърт (departure, especially departure from this life; death) · es perecimiento (departure, especially departure from this life; death) · ar رحل عن الحياة (departure, especially departure from this life; death) · es fenecimiento (departure, especially departure from this life; death) · bg кончина (departure, especially departure from this life; death) · gl falecemento (departure, especially departure from this life; death) · fr décès (departure, especially departure from this life; death) · gl óbito (departure, especially departure from this life; death) · fi poismeno (departure, especially departure from this life; death) · it decesso (departure, especially departure from this life; death) · de Exitus (departure, especially departure from this life; death) · de Ableben (departure, especially departure from this life; death) · gl finamento (departure, especially departure from this life; death) · ml മരണം (departure, especially departure from this life; death) · da bortgang (departure, especially departure from this life; death) · cs skon (departure, especially departure from this life; death) · cmn 死亡 (departure, especially departure from this life; death) · es defunción (departure, especially departure from this life; death)

decease en · VERB

Pronunciation

  • /dɪˈsiːs/
  • (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From Old French deces (Modern French décès), from Latin dēcessus (“departure”).

Meanings

  1. (archaic) To die.
    • After which usurped victorie, he presently deceased: and partly through the excessive joy he thereby conceived. 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 17, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
  2. (formal, transitive) To cause to die.

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
deceased Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
deceased Tense=Past lexicographic
deceases Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic
deceasing Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic

Deriveds

deceaser · postdecease · predecease

Synonyms

pass on · shuffle off this mortal coil · pay the debt of nature · darken · hand in one's checks · expire · forfare · pass the river · be with the Lord · be like the the One · be no more · assume room temperature · pass in one's checks · snuff it · liquidate · pass over · slip away · go the way of the dodo · keel over · knock off · kick off · exit · cash in · go the way of the dodo bird · give up the ghost · flatline · conk out · go the way of the dinosaurs · disincarnate · pop one's clogs · fall off the twig · lose the number of one's mess · cark it · go over to the majority · cross the Great Divide · perish · yield up the ghost · peg out · draw one's last breath · be gathered to one's fathers · go for a burton · drop off the hooks · bite the big one · close one's eyes for the last time · croak · pass away · take a dirt nap · decease · pop off · hand in one's dinner pail · join the choir invisible · push up daisies · perish · be with Jesus · go to one's reward · hop the twig · buy it · check out · kick the bucket · cross over · pay nature's debt · cross the Styx · cash in one's chips · sleep with one's fathers · pass · sink · depart · go west · go to glory · code · bite the biscuit · decompose · auger in · go out · give one's all · meet one's doom · meet one's end · dematerialize · turn up one's toes · meet one's maker · buy the farm · be called home · expire · succumb · go the way of all flesh · pass in one's marble · bite the dust

Translations (19)

cmn 死亡 (to die) · it morire (to die) · fr mourir (to die) · vi qua đời (to die) · de dahinscheiden (to die) · da gå bort (to die) · cmn 去世 (to die) · ja 他界する (to die) · ja 死去する (to die) · de ableben (to die) · vi chết (to die) · fr décéder (to die) · vi mất (to die) · fr trépasser (to die) · bg умирам (to die) · pt falecer (to die) · ja 亡くなる (to die) · de hinscheiden (to die) · fr expirer (to die)