KICK THE BUCKET
Dictionary entry overview: What does kick the bucket mean?
• KICK THE BUCKET (verb)
The verb KICK THE BUCKET has 1 sense:
1. pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
Familiarity information: KICK THE BUCKET used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• KICK THE BUCKET (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:
buy the farm; perish; pass away; kick the bucket; give-up the ghost; snuff it; drop dead; die; decease; croak; cash in one's chips; pop off; expire; exit; conk; 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 "kick the bucket" 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 "kick the bucket"):
abort (cease development, die, and be aborted)
asphyxiate; stifle; suffocate (be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen)
buy it; pip out (be killed or die)
drown (die from being submerged in water, getting water into the lungs, and asphyxiating)
predecease (die before; die earlier than)
famish; starve (die of food deprivation)
fall (die, as in battle or in a hunt)
succumb; yield (be fatally overwhelmed)
Sentence frame:
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