Meaning of DECEASE
| Pronunciation: | | di'sees
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- [n] 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"
- [v] pass from physical life and lose all all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life; "She died from cancer"; "They children perished in the fire"; "The patient went peacefully"
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| | Synonyms: | | death, die, exit, expire, go, pass, pass away, perish |
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| | Antonyms: | | be born, birth, nascence, nascency, nativity | | |
| | See Also: | | alteration, asphyxiate, buy it, buy the farm, change, change state, choke, conk, croak, Crucifixion, departure, die back, die down, die off, die out, drop dead, drown, exit, expiration, fall, famish, fatality, going, human death, kick the bucket, loss, martyrdom, megadeath, modification, passing, pip out, pop off, predecease, release, snuff it, starve, succumb, suffocate, turn, yield | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\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.
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. --Spenser.
Syn: Death; departure; dissolution; demise; release. See
{Death}.
\De*cease"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Deceased}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Deceasing}.]
To depart from this life; to die; to pass away.
She's dead, deceased, she's dead. --Shak.
When our summers have deceased. --Tennyson.
Inasmuch as he carries the malignity and the lie with
him, he so far deceases from nature. --Emerson.
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| | Related Terms: | | annihilation, apodosis, bane, be lost, biological death, cash in, catastrophe, cease to be, cease to live, ceasing, cessation, cessation of life, clinical death, coda, conclusion, consummation, crack of doom, crossing the bar, culmination, curtain, curtains, death, death knell, debt of nature, demise, denouement, depart, depart this life, departure, destination, destiny, die, dissolution, doom, drop, dying, ebb of life, effect, end, end of life, end point, ending, envoi, epilogue, eschatology, eternal rest, exit, expiration, expire, extinction, extinguishment, fall, fall asleep, fate, final solution, final summons, final twitch, final words, finale, finality, finger of death, finis, finish, go, go out, goal, going, going off, grave, hand of death, izzard, jaws of death, knell, last, last breath, last debt, last gasp, last muster, last rest, last roundup, last sleep, last things, last trumpet, last words, latter end, leaving life, loss of life, making an end, omega, part, parting, pass, pass away, pass on, pass over, passing, passing away, passing over, payoff, period, perish, perishing, peroration, put off mortality, quietus, quit this world, release, resolution, rest, resting place, return to dust, reward, sentence of death, shades of death, shadow of death, silence, sleep, somatic death, stop breathing, stoppage, stopping place, succumb, summons of death, swan song, term, terminal, termination, terminus, up and die, windup, yield the ghost, Z |
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