decease

Main Entry:
pass away
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: die
Synonyms: bite the dust, buy the farm, cash in one's chips, cease living, croak, decease, demise, depart, die, drop, expire, kick the bucket, meet one's maker, pass on, perish, succumb
Antonyms: be born, live
Main Entry: perish
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: die, decline, decay
Synonyms: OD, be destroyed, be killed, be lost, bite the dust, break down, buy the farm, cease, check out*, collapse, corrupt, croak, crumble, decease, decompose, demise, depart, disappear, disintegrate, end, expire, fall, give up the ghost, go, go under, kick the bucket, lose life, pass, pass away, pass on, rot, succumb, vanish, waste*, wither
Antonyms: give birth, revive
Main Entry: succumb
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: die or surrender
Synonyms: accede, bow, break down, buckle, capitulate, cave, cave in, cease, collapse, croak, decease, defer, demise, depart, drop, eat crow, expire, fall, fall victim to, flake out, fold, give in, give in to, give out, give up the ghost, give way, go, go down, go under, knuckle, knuckle under, meet waterloo, pack it in, pass, pass away, perish, quit, show white flag, submit, take the count, throw in the towel, wilt, yield
Antonyms: conquer, create, overcome, win
Main Entry: quietus
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: death
Synonyms: acquittance, decease, discharge, dissolution, end, extinction, release, repose
Main Entry: final rest
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: end of life
Synonyms: death, decease, dying, eternal rest, eternal sleep, final sleep, gravepassing, last rest, last sleep
Main Entry: quietus
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: death
Synonyms: decease, dissolution, end, passing, the end
Main Entry: conk
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: die
Synonyms: decease, fail, faint, hit, knock, stall, straighten, swat
Related Words
Main Entry: death
Part of Speech: noun
Related
Adjectives:
amort, anabiotic, antemortem, asleep, at death's door, at peace, at the last gasp, at the point of death, booked, burial, buried, cinerary, commorient, condemned, dead, dead and gone, dead as a doornail, deadly, deceased, defunct, defunctive, demised, departed, departed this life, dying, eclipsed, eighty, elegiac, encharnelled, exanimate, extinct, fey, funebrial, funerary, funereal, gathered to one's fathers, given over, going, going off, gone, hippocratic, iced, in extremis, in the agony of death, in the jaws of death, inanimate, infernal, intestate, late, launched into eternity, lethal, lifeless, lost, moribund, morient, mortal, mortuary, mortuous, near one's end, no more, numbered with the dead, on one's deathbed, on one's last legs, out of the world, placeparted, post, posthumous, released, sepelible, smabbled, stillborn, taken off, terminal, testate, thanatoid, tottering on the brink of the grave, with one foot in the grave
Concept Thesaurus
Concept: Death.
Category: 1. Vitality; vitality in general
Synonyms:
-nouns
death; decease, demise; dissolution, departure, obit, release, rest, quietus, fall; loss, bereavement; mortality, morbidity., end of life, cessation of life [more], loss of life, extinction of life, ebb of life [more]., death warrant, death watch, death rattle, death bed; stroke of death, agonies of death, shades of death, valley of death, jaws of death, hand of death; last breath, last gasp, last agonies; dying day, dying breath, dying agonies; chant du cygne; rigor mortis; Stygian shore., King of terrors, King Death; Death; doom (necessity); "Hell's grim Tyrant" [Pope]., euthanasia; break up of the system; natural death, natural decay; sudden death, violent death; untimely end, watery grave; debt of nature; suffocation, asphyxia; fatal disease (disease); death blow (killing)., necrology, bills of mortality, obituary; death song (lamentation).
-verbs
die, expire, perish; meet one's death, meet one's end; pass away, be taken; yield one's breath, resign one's breath; resign one's being, resign one's life; end one's days, end one's life, end one's earthly career; breathe one's last; cease to live, cease to breathe; depart this life; be no more; go off, drop off, pop off; lose one's life, lay down one's life, relinquish one's life, surrender one's life; drop into the grave, sink into the grave; close one's eyes; fall dead, drop dead, fall down dead, drop down dead; break one's neck; give up the ghost, yield up the ghost; be all over with one., pay the debt to nature, shuffle off this mortal coil, take one's last sleep; go the way of all flesh; hand in one's checks, pass in one's checks, hand in one's chips, pass in one's chips [U.S.]; join the greater number, join the majority; come to dust, turn to dust; cross the Stygian ferry, cross the bar; go to one's long account, go to one's last home, go to Davy Jones's locker, go to the wall; receive one's death warrant, make one's will, step out, die a natural death, go out like the snuff of a candle; come to an untimely end; catch one's death; go off the hooks, kick the bucket, buy the farm, hop the twig, turn up one's toes; die a violent death (be killed).
-adjectives
dead, lifeless; deceased, demised, departed, defunct, extinct; late, gone, no more; exanimate, inanimate; out of the world, taken off, released; departed this life; dead and gone; dead as a doornail, dead as a doorpost, dead as a mutton, dead as a herring, dead as nits; launched into eternity, gathered to one's fathers, numbered with the dead., dying; moribund, morient; hippocratic; in articulo, in extremis; in the jaws of death, in the agony of death; going off; aux abois; on one's last legs, on one's death bed; at the point of death, at death's door, at the last gasp; near one's end, given over, booked; with one foot in the grave, tottering on the brink of the grave., stillborn; mortuary; deadly (killing).
-adverbs
post obit, post mortem.
-phrases
life ebbs, life fails, life hangs by a thread; one's days are numbered, one's hour is come, one's race is run, one's doom is sealed; Death knocks at the door, Death stares one in the face; the breath is out of the body; the grave closes over one; sic itur ad astra [Vergil]; de mortuis nil nisi bonum; dulce et decorum est pro patria mori [Horace]; honesta mors turpi vita potior [Tacitus]; "in adamantine chains shall death be bound" [Pope]; mors ultima linea rerum est [Girace]; ominia mors aequat [Claudianus]; "Spake the grisly Terror" [Paradise Lost];
Antonyms: life
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