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| Main Entry: |
decease
[dih-sees]
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| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | pass away; expire |
| Synonyms: | buy a one-way ticket, call off all bets, cease, check out*, cool off, croak, deep six, depart, die, drop, go, pass, pass away, pass on, pass over, perish, succumb |
| 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: | be born, bear |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | body |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | corpse |
| Synonyms: | ashes, bones, cadaver, carcass, carrion, clay, corpus delicti, dead body, deceased, dust, relic, remains, stiff* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | cadaver |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dead body |
| Synonyms: | body, cage, carcass, corpse, deceased, mort, remains, skeleton, stiff* |
| Antonyms: | being |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | corpse |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dead body |
| Synonyms: | body, bones, cadaver, carcass, carrion, deceased, departed, mort, remains, stiff* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | dead |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | no longer alive |
| Synonyms: | asleep, bereft of life, bloodless, bought the farm, breathless, buried, cadaverous, checked out, cold, cut off, deceased, defunct, departed, done for, erased, expired, extinct, gone, gone to meet maker, gone to reward, inanimate, inert, late, lifeless, liquidated, mortified, no more, not existing, offed, out of one's misery, passed away, perished, pushing up daisies, reposing, resting in peace, spiritless, stiff, unanimated, wasted |
| Antonyms: | alive, animated, being, existent, existing, live, living, subsisting |
| Main Entry: | defunct |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | extinct, not functioning |
| Synonyms: | asleep, bygone, cold, dead, deceased, departed, done for, down the drain, exanimate, expired, gone, had it, inanimate, inoperative, invalid, kaput, late, lifeless, lost, nonexistent, obsolete, out of commission, vanished |
| Antonyms: | alive, existent, existing, functioning, live, operating, operative, valid, working |
| Main Entry: | departed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dead |
| Synonyms: | bought the farm, buried, deceased, expired, gone, in the grave, laid to rest, late, passed away, pushing up daisies, six feet under, stiff |
| Main Entry: | die |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | pass away; stop living |
| Synonyms: | be no more, be taken, breathe one's last, cease to exist, conk, croak, decease, demise, depart, drop, drop off, drown, expire, finish, give up the ghost, go way of all flesh, kick the bucket, perish, relinquish life, rest in peace, succumb, suffocate |
| Antonyms: | be born, begin, live |
| Main Entry: | expire |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | come to an end |
| Synonyms: | bite the dust, buy it, cash in chips, cease, close, conclude, croak, decease, depart, die, elapse, end, finish, go, kick the bucket, lapse, pass, pass away, pass on, pass over, perish, quit, run out, stop, strike out, terminate, up and die |
| Antonyms: | bear, begin, commence, start |
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