'Decease' definitions:
Definition of 'decease'
(from WordNet)
noun
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" [syn: death, decease, expiry] [ant: birth, nascence, nascency, nativity]
verb
Pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life; "She died from cancer"; "The children perished in the fire"; "The patient went peacefully"; "The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102" [syn: die, decease, perish, go, exit, pass away, expire, pass, kick the bucket, cash in one's chips, buy the farm, conk, give-up the ghost, drop dead, pop off, choke, croak, snuff it] [ant: be born]
Definition of 'Decease'
From: GCIDE
- Decease \De*cease"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Deceased; p. pr. & vb. n. Deceasing.] To depart from this life; to die; to pass away. [1913 Webster]
- She's dead, deceased, she's dead. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- When our summers have deceased. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
- Inasmuch as he carries the malignity and the lie with him, he so far deceases from nature. --Emerson. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Decease'
From: GCIDE
- Decease \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. [1913 Webster]
- His decease, which he should accomplish at Jerusalem. --Luke ix. 31. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'decease'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
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