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Definition of decease :
1. Departure, especially departure from this life; death.
2. To depart from this life; to die; to pass away.
Synonyms:
foul, go bad, run low, get, surpass, go on, slip by, go by, check out, spend, scrag, clog up, go along, blend, eliminate, lapse, leave, hand, gnarl, pass by, make pass, termination, break down, fail, die out, authorize, congest, fleet, evanesce, hold out, occur, clear, hap, pass along, fall out, go out, choke, sink, communicate, croak, transcend, live, cronk, make it, legislate, destruction, rifle, work, break, pass on to the Great Beyond, strangle, expiry, extend, dying, get out, fret, elapse, snuff it, cash in, operate, locomote, asphyxiate, cash in one's chips, last, pall, swoon, go through, pop off, give out, hold up, guide, travel by, reach, become, conk, kick in, run short, plump, travel, happen, endure, bite the dust, conk out, give-up the ghost, give, move, overtake, suffocate, decline, draw, slip away, drop dead, devolve, run, live on, come about, go across, pass off, grumble, pass out, mutter, survive, become flat, exceed, go away, stall, throttle, kick the bucket, exhale, stifle, give way, turn over, blow over, drop, overhaul, start, return, overstep, go past, function, take place, egest, back up, faint, breathe out, fade, lead, put across, slide by, run out, top, get going, wither, buy the farm, gag, kick off, blend in, murmur, choke off, excrete, authorise, go, belong, proceed, sound, glide by, clog, fit
death (part of speech: noun)
cessation, quietus, dissolution, fatality, ending, expiration, release, parting, extinction, passing, annihilation, death, demise
end (part of speech: verb)
conclude, expire, finish, cease, end, wrap up, pass away, checkmate, cap, finalize, terminate, close, culminate, accomplish, complete, pass on, halt, stop, exit, die
die (part of speech: verb)
part, pass, fall, depart, perish, succumb, study at die
Usage examples:
- So the people ceased to honour him during his lifetime, and quietly consigned him to forgetfulness after his decease. - "Famous Stories Every Child Should Know", Various.
- I forget in detail what they were, but I have a general recollection that he was to begin with reviving the Drama, and to end with crushing it; inasmuch as his decease would leave it utterly bereft and without a chance or hope. - "Great Expectations", Charles Dickens.
- The only impediment to its being so recognized and acted upon is the doubt as to her actual decease. - "The Chief Legatee", Anna Katharine Green.