Defenition of the word decease

• Defenition of the word decease

  • To cease to live.
  • the event of dying or departure from life: "her death came as a terrible shock"; "upon your decease the capital will pass to your grandchildren"
  • pass from physical life and lose all all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life; "She died from cancer"; "They children perished in the fire"; "The patient went peacefully"
  • the event of dying or departure from life; "her death came as a terrible shock"; "upon your decease the capital will pass to your grandchildren"
  • the event of dying or departure from life
  • pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life

Synonyms for the word decease

• • death
  • demise
  • departure
  • die
  • exit
  • expire
  • go
  • pass away
  • passing
  • perish
  • release

Similar words in the decease

• • decease
  • decease's
  • deceased
  • deceases
  • die back
  • die down
  • die off
  • die out

Hyponyms for the word decease

• • abort
  • asphyxiate
  • buy it
  • buy the farm
  • cash in one's chips
  • choke
  • conk
  • croak
  • Crucifixion
  • departure
  • drop dead
  • drown
  • exit
  • expiration
  • fall
  • famish
  • fatality
  • give-up the ghost
  • going
  • human death
  • kick the bucket
  • loss
  • martyrdom
  • megadeath
  • passing
  • pip out
  • pop off
  • predecease
  • release
  • snuff it
  • starve
  • stifle
  • succumb
  • suffocate
  • wrongful death
  • yield

Hypernyms for the word decease

• • alteration
  • change
  • change state
  • modification
  • turn

Antonyms for the word decease

• • be born
  • birth
  • nascence
  • nascency
  • nativity

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