decease
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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 by Ralph Waldo Emerson by Edna Henry Lee Turpin
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
Inasmuch as he carries the malignity and the lie with him he so far deceases from nature.
From Essays — First Series by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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 William Rounseville Alger
The mourning is also a form of group therapy, allowing those who never knew the deceased personally to hear about their legacy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026
After a concertgoer died in the audience at a Carson music festival on Saturday, an artist is outraged the show continued while the deceased was still on-site.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
The last living hostages from Nir Oz were returned to Israel on 13 October 2025 and the remains of the last deceased hostage, Amiram Cooper, were brought back two weeks later.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
The NFL players union has sent an FBI notice to all of its members seeking information about investments they made with a now deceased e-commerce executive.
From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026
As the head of the family and chief mourner, Jinjoo’s father stayed at the home of the deceased with Gomo for the entire mourning period.
From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh
But the report warns that perceptions of deceasing security of supply could potentially deter investment.
From BBC ● Nov. 26, 2014
He gaue vnto his sonne Simeon the prouinces of Vvlodimiria and Moscouia: which Simeon deceasing without issue his brother Iohn succeeded, who begate a son called Demetrius.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 03 by Richard Hakluyt
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 Richard Hakluyt
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 J. Fenimore Cooper
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 Richard Carew
