Decease

//dɪˈsiːs// noun, verb

noun, verb ·Common ·High school level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Death, departure from life. countable, formal, uncountable

    "So should that beauty which you hold in lease Find no determination: then you were Yourself again after yourself's decease […]"

  2. 2
    the event of dying or departure from life wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To die. archaic

    "After which usurped victorie, he presently deceased: and partly through the excessive joy he thereby conceived."

  2. 2
    pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life wordnet
  3. 3
    To cause to die. formal, transitive

Synonyms

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diebuy the farmcash in one's chipscroakdeathdeath

Antonyms

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live

Example

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"So should that beauty which you hold in lease Find no determination: then you were Yourself again after yourself's decease […]"

Etymology

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

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