| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | death |
| Synonyms: | buying the farm, curtains, defunction, demise, departure, dissolution, dying, grim reaper, passing, passing away, passing over, quietus, release, silence, sleep, taps, the end |
| Notes: | decease is the event of dying or departure from life; disease is an impairment of health or a condition of abnormal and harmful functioning |
| Antonyms: | birth |
| Main Entry: | passing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | death |
| Synonyms: | decease, defunction, demise, dissolution, end, finish, loss, silence, sleep, termination |
| Antonyms: | birth, living |