| Main Entry: | |
| 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: | leave |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | give, especially after death |
| Synonyms: | allot, apportion, assign, bequeath, bequest, cede, commit, confide, consign, demise, devise, entrust, give over, hand down, leave behind, legate, refer, transmit, will |
| Notes: | let means to make it possible through a specific action or lack of action for something to happen, to allow; leave means to go away from a place |
| Antonyms: | hold |
| Main Entry: | pass |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cease |
| Synonyms: | blow over, cash in, close, decease, demise, depart, die, disappear, discontinue, dissolve, drop, dwindle, ebb, end, evaporate, expire, fade, go, melt away, pass away, perish, peter out, stop, succumb, terminate, vanish, wane |
| Antonyms: | live |
| 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 |