decease as a noun: - 1
as a verb: - 1
decease
noun
1 decease
The event of dying or departure from life:
— Upon your decease the capital will pass to your grandchildren.
synonyms: death, expiry.
Roget 360:
death;
decease,
demise;
dissolution,
departure,
obit,
release,
rest,
quietus,
fall;
loss,
bereavement;
mortality,
morbidity.
end of life
etc.
67,
cessation of life
etc.
142,
loss of life,
extinction of life,
ebb of life
etc.
359.
death warrant,
death watch,
death rattle,
death bed;
stroke of death,
agonies of death,
shades of death,
valley of death,
jaws of death,
hand of death;
last breath,
last gasp,
last agonies;
dying day,
dying breath,
dying agonies;
chant du cygne [Fr.];
rigor mortis [Lat.];
Stygian shore.
King of terrors,
King Death;
Death;
doom
etc.
(necessity)
601;
Hell's grim Tyrant"
[Pope].
euthanasia;
break up of the system;
natural death,
natural decay;
sudden death,
violent death;
untimely end,
watery grave;
debt of nature;
suffocation,
asphyxia;
fatal disease
etc.
(disease)
655;
death blow
etc.
(killing)
361.
necrology,
bills of mortality,
obituary;
death song
etc.
(lamentation)
839.
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Dutch: dood, heengaan, overlijden, verscheiden
Polish: odejście, skonanie, umarcie, zmarcie
verb
1 decease
Pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life.
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 ... show more.
Dutch: de pijp aan Maarten geven, vergaan, omkomen, creperen, doodgaan, expireren, heengaan, inslapen, insluimeren, kapotgaan, ontslapen, overlijden, peigeren, sterven, verrekken, verscheiden, versmachten ... show more
Moby thesaurus: Z, 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 ... show more.
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