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- Dictionarydecease/dɪˈsiːs/
noun
- 1. a person's death: formal "he held the post until his untimely decease in 1991"
verb
- 1. die: archaic "he deceased at his palace of Croydon"
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noun [ U ] formal uk / dɪˈsiːs / us / dɪˈsiːs / Add to word list. a person's death: The house will not be yours till after your mother's decease. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Death and dying. all-cause mortality. antemortem. bereave. bite. bleed out. coroner. death toll. ghost. have one foot in the grave idiom. macabre. perish.
noun [ U ] formal us / dɪˈsiːs / uk / dɪˈsiːs / Add to word list. a person's death: The house will not be yours till after your mother's decease. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Death and dying. all-cause mortality. antemortem. bereave. bite. bleed out. coroner. death toll. ghost. have one foot in the grave idiom. macabre. perish.
The meaning of DECEASE is departure from life : death. How to use decease in a sentence.
noun. 1. a more formal word for death. verb. 2.(intransitive) a more formal word for die 1. Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers. Word origin. C14 (n): from Old French deces, from Latin dēcēdere to depart. English Quiz. Confusables. Synonyms of. 'decease' Language Lover's. Blog. French Translation of. 'decease' Translate
Definition of decease noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
verb. To cease living: demise, depart, die, drop, expire, go, pass away, pass (on), perish, succumb.
Decease definition: the act of dying; departure from life; death.. See examples of DECEASE used in a sentence.
Definitions of decease. noun. the event of dying or departure from life. “upon your decease the capital will pass to your grandchildren” synonyms: death, demise, expiry. see more. verb. pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life.
decease. From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English de‧cease /dɪˈsiːs/ noun [ uncountable] law death On your decease, the house passes to your wife. Examples from the Corpus decease • But it needn't be a terminal decease.
Noun. Verb. Filter. verb. deceased, deceases, deceasing. To die. Webster's New World. Similar definitions. Synonyms: choke. pop off. drop-dead. give-up-the-ghost. conk. croak. pass away. buy-the-farm. cash in one's chips. kick-the-bucket. pass. expire. exit. go. perish. Antonyms: bear. be born. noun. deceases.
