pass away
verb
1 pass away
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, decease, die, drop dead, exit, expire, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass, perish, pop off, snuff it ... show more.
Roget 2:
not exist
etc.
1;
have no existence
etc.
1;
be null and void;
cease to exist
etc.
1;
pass away,
perish;
be extinct,
become extinct
etc.
adj.;
die out;
disappear
etc.
449;
melt away,
dissolve,
leave not a rack behind;
go,
be no more;
die
etc.
360.
annihilate,
render null,
nullify;
abrogate
etc.
756;
destroy
etc.
162;
take away;
remove
etc.
(displace)
185;
obliterate,
extirpate.
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Roget 67:
end,
close,
finish,
terminate,
conclude,
be all over;
expire;
die
etc.
360;
come-,
draw-to-a-close
etc.
n.;
have run its course;
run out,
pass away.
bring to an end
etc.
n.;
put an end to,
make an end of;
determine;
get through;
achieve
etc.
(complete)
729;
stop
etc.
(make to cease)
142;
shut up shop;
hang up one's fiddle.
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Roget 111:
be transient
etc.
adj.;
flit,
pass away,
fly,
gallop,
vanish,
fade,
evaporate;
pass away like a cloud,
pass away like a summer cloud,
pass away like a shadow,
pass away like a dream.
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Roget 122:
be past
etc.
adj.;
have expired
etc.
adj.,
have run its course,
have had its day;
pass;
pass by,
go by,
pass away,
go away,
pass off,
go off;
lapse,
blow over.
look back,
trace back,
cast the eyes back;
exhume.
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Roget 360:
die,
expire,
perish;
meet one's death,
meet one's end;
pass away,
be taken;
yield one's breath,
resign one's breath;
resign one's being,
resign one's life;
end one's days,
end one's life,
end one's earthly career;
breathe one's last;
cease to live,
cease to breathe;
depart this life;
be no more
etc.
adj.;
go off,
drop off,
pop off;
lose one's life,
lay down one's life,
relinquish one's life,
surrender one's life;
drop into the grave,
sink into the grave;
close one's eyes;
fall dead,
drop dead,
fall down dead,
drop down dead;
break one's neck;
give up the ghost,
yield up the ghost;
be all over with one.
pay the debt to nature,
shuffle off this mortal coil,
take one's last sleep;
go the way of all flesh;
hand in one's checks,
pass in one's checks,
hand in one's chips,
pass in one's chips [U.S.];
join the greater number,
join the majority;
come to dust,
turn to dust;
cross the Stygian ferry,
cross the bar;
go to one's long account,
go to one's last home,
go to Davy Jones's locker,
go to the wall;
receive one's death warrant,
make one's will,
step out,
die a natural death,
go out like the snuff of a candle;
come to an untimely end;
catch one's death;
go off the hooks,
kick the bucket,
buy the farm,
hop the twig,
turn up one's toes;
die a violent death
etc.
(be killed)
361.
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Roget 142:
cease,
discontinue,
desist,
stay,
halt;
break off,
leave off;
hold,
stop,
pull up,
stop short;
stick,
hang fire;
halt;
pause,
rest;
burn out,
blow out,
melt down.
have done with,
give over,
surcease,
shut up shop;
give up
etc.
(relinquish)
624.
hold one's hand,
stay one's hand;
rest on one's oars repose on one's laurels.
come to a stand,
come to a standstill;
come to a deadlock,
come to a full stop;
arrive
etc.
292;
go out,
die away;
wear away,
wear off;
pass away
etc.
(be past)
122;
be at an end;
disintegrate,
self-destruct.
intromit,
interrupt,
suspend,
interpel†;
intermit,
remit;
put an end to,
put a stop to,
put a period to;
derail;
turn off,
switch off,
power down,
deactivate,
disconnect;
bring to a stand,
bring to a standstill;
stop,
cut short,
arrest,
stem the tide,
stem the torrent;
pull the check-string,
pull the plug on.
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Dutch: de pijp aan Maarten geven, vergaan, omkomen, creperen, doodgaan, expireren, heengaan, inslapen, insluimeren, kapotgaan, ontslapen, overlijden, peigeren, sterven, verrekken, verscheiden, versmachten ... show more
2 pass away
Moby thesaurus: be all over, be annihilated, be consumed, be destroyed, be done for, be gone, be lost, be no more, be superseded, be wiped out, become extinct, become void, blow over, cash in, cease, cease to be, cease to exist, cease to live, come to naught, come to nothing, conk out, decease, dematerialize, demise, depart, depart this life, die, die away, die out, disappear, dispel, disperse, dissipate, dissolve, do a fade-out, drop, dwindle, elapse, end, erode, evanesce, evaporate, exit, expire, fade, fade away, fade out, fall, fall asleep, fall into disuse, flee, fleet, flit, fly, go, go away, go out, have it, have its time, hide, lapse, leave no trace, leave the scene, melt, melt away, melt like snow, obsolesce, part, pass, pass on, pass out, pass over, peg out, perish, peter out, put off mortality, quit this world, retire from sight, return to dust, run its course, run out, sink, sink away, stop breathing, succumb, suffer an eclipse, superannuate, up and die, vanish, vanish from sight, waste, waste away, wear away, wear off, yield the ghost ... show more.
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