DECEASE
Dictionary entry overview: What does decease mean?
• DECEASE (noun)
The noun DECEASE has 1 sense:
1. the event of dying or departure from life
Familiarity information: DECEASE used as a noun is very rare.
• DECEASE (verb)
The verb DECEASE has 1 sense:
1. pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
Familiarity information: DECEASE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• DECEASE (noun)
Meaning:
The event of dying or departure from life
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural events
Synonyms:
death; decease; expiry
Context examples:
her death came as a terrible shock / upon your decease the capital will pass to your grandchildren
Hypernyms ("decease" is a kind of...):
alteration; change; modification (an event that occurs when something passes from one state or phase to another)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "decease"):
fatality; human death (a death resulting from an accident or a disaster)
martyrdom (death that is imposed because of the person's adherence of a religious faith or cause)
megadeath (the death of a million people)
departure; exit; expiration; going; loss; passing; release (euphemistic expressions for death)
wrongful death (a death that results from a wrongful act or from negligence; a death that can serve as the basis for a civil action for damages on behalf of the dead person's family or heirs)
Instance hyponyms:
Crucifixion (the death of Jesus on the cross)
• DECEASE (verb)
Meaning:
Pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
perish; pass away; kick the bucket; give-up the ghost; drop dead; die; decease; buy the farm; cash in one's chips; snuff it; croak; expire; pop off; conk; exit; choke; go; pass
Context examples:
She died from cancer / They children perished in the fire / The patient went peacefully / The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102
Hypernyms (to "decease" is one way to...):
change state; turn (undergo a transformation or a change of position or action)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "decease"):
fall (die, as in battle or in a hunt)
famish; starve (die of food deprivation)
predecease (die before; die earlier than)
drown (die from being submerged in water, getting water into the lungs, and asphyxiating)
buy it; pip out (be killed or die)
asphyxiate; stifle; suffocate (be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen)
abort (cease development, die, and be aborted)
succumb; yield (be fatally overwhelmed)
Sentence frame:
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