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decease

[dih-sees] / dɪˈsis /




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In the capillaries and veins, the blood pressure continues to decease but velocity increases.

From Textbooks Jun. 9, 2022

Yet here I hardly know whether I should divulge one little item of rumor, which came to my ear a few months after the scrivener’s decease.

From Slate Oct. 22, 2015

No, we don't mean Margaret Thatcher, though her decease prompted ruminations about her cinematic era and the effect it's had since.

From The Guardian Apr. 11, 2013

I advance personally, solely to you ... decease calls me forth.”

From Slate Mar. 19, 2013

I did not ask what she meant by “all being over,” but I suppose she referred to the expected decease of her mother and the gloomy sequel of funeral rites.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

Further testing for communicable deceases is being performed.”

From Time Oct. 29, 2015

Inasmuch as he carries the malignity and the lie with him he so far deceases from nature.

From Essays — First Series by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Consciousness is a production which results from the fermentation and elaboration of unconscious materials; and after a time it deceases, its conditions crumbling into their inorganic grounds again.

From The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life by Alger, William Rounseville

Inasmuch as he carries the malignity and the lie with him, he so far deceases from nature.

From Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Turpin, Edna Henry Lee

His soul dwells in the outside of him, like that of a hollow tree, and if you do but peel the bark off him he deceases immediately.

From Character Writings of the 17th Century by Various

He said his client wanted the forensic medical report and the "toxicological and histological examinations of the deceased" to be included in the case file.

From BBC Aug. 9, 2026

Morales already pulled his deceased 13-year-old granddaughter from the debris.

From Barron's Aug. 6, 2026

A man who was reported missing in Fawnskin on Monday morning was found deceased by the San Bernardino Sheriff’s Department near his campsite after an extensive search.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 5, 2026

So boards start “digging for dollars” by searching for loopholes in restricted funds given by benefactors who are deceased, Moore said.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 3, 2026

I didn’t yet appreciate its terrible finality or the havoc it could wreak on those who’d entrusted the deceased with their hearts.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer

But the report warns that perceptions of deceasing security of supply could potentially deter investment.

From BBC Nov. 26, 2014

Husband, He be thy wife in heauen: let not thy pure deceasing spirite despise me when we meete, because I am tyrannously polluted.

From The Vnfortunate Traveller, or The Life Of Jack Wilton With An Essay On The Life And Writings Of Thomas Nash By Edmund Gosse by Gosse, Edmund

From Nicholas, is descended Carew of Haccumb, who by vertue of this entayle, succeeded also to Hughs portion, as deceasing issuelesse.

From The Survey of Cornwall And an epistle concerning the excellencies of the English tongue by Carew, Richard

Beyond a question; since Paul stateth, in his missive, that he saw much of this same ambassador, living greatly in his society, Eugenius deceasing as lately as 1477.

From Mercedes of Castile The Voyage to Cathay by Cooper, J. Fenimore

Sinaus and Truuor deceasing without issue, Rurek succeeded and left a sonne behinde him named Igor; who not being of sufficient yeres to beare rule, was committed vnto the protection of his kinsman Olechus.

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 03 by Hakluyt, Richard




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