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passed away
| Main Entry: |
pass away
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| 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: | 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: | nonexistent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fictional, not real |
| Synonyms: | absent, airy, baseless, blank, chimerical, dead, defunct, departed, dreamlike, dreamy, empty, ethereal, extinct, extinguished, fancied, few and far between, flimsy, gone, gossamery, groundless, hallucinatory, hypothetical, illusory, imaginary, imagined, immaterial, imponderable, insubstantial, legendary, lost, missing, mythical, negative, null, null and void, passed away, passed on, perished, shadowy, tenuous, ungrounded, unreal, unsubstantial, vacant, vague, vaporous, void, without foundation |
| Antonyms: | actual, existent, existing, real, true |
| Main Entry: | decease |
| 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: | disappear |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | vanish; cease |
| Synonyms: | abandon, abscond, be done for, be gone, be lost, be no more, be swallowed up, cease to exist, clear, come to naught, decamp, dematerialize, depart, die, die out, disperse, dissipate, dissolve, drop out of sight, ebb, end, end gradually, escape, evanesce, evanish, evaporate, exit, expire, fade, fade away, flee, fly, go, go south, leave, leave no trace, melt, melt away, pass, pass away, perish, recede, retire, retreat, sink, take flight, vacate, vamoose, wane, withdraw |
| Antonyms: | appear, arrive, come in |
| Main Entry: | elapse |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | go by; slip away |
| Synonyms: | expire, flow, glide by, lapse, pass, pass away, pass by, roll by, roll on, run out, transpire, vanish |
| 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 |
| Main Entry: | go |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | die, collapse |
| Synonyms: | bend, break, cave, conclude, consume, crumble, decease, decline, demise, depart, deplete, devour, dissipate, drop, exhaust, expend, expire, fail, finish, fold up, fritter, give, pass away, pass on, perish, run through, spend, squander, succumb, terminate, use up, waste, weaken, worsen, yield |
| Antonyms: | be born, create |
| Main Entry: | go |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | elapse |
| Synonyms: | be spent, expire, flow, lapse, pass, pass away, slip away, transpire, waste away |
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