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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.
Decease definition: the act of dying; departure from life; death.. See examples of DECEASE used in a sentence.
noun. de· cease di-ˈsēs. Synonyms of decease. : departure from life : death. decease intransitive verb. Synonyms. curtains. death. demise. dissolution. doom. end. exit. expiration. expiry. fate. grave. great divide. passage. passing. quietus. sleep. See all Synonyms & Antonyms in Thesaurus. Examples of decease in a Sentence.
Definition of decease noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
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. posthumously. raise someone from the dead idiom. remains. roadkill.
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 in British English. (dɪˈsiːs) 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.
Define decease. decease synonyms, decease pronunciation, decease translation, English dictionary definition of decease. intr.v. de·ceased , de·ceas·ing , de·ceas·es To die. n. The act of dying; death.
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.
DECEASE meaning: the death of a person.
