decease 1 of 2

noun

di-ˈsēs How to pronounce decease (audio)
Definition of deceasenext
as in death
the permanent stopping of all the vital bodily activities in the event of the decease of the president, the vice president will immediately assume his duties

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decease

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verb

as in to die
to stop living no one knows what happened to the family fortune after the spinster deceased

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for decease
  1. death
  2. die
  3. demise
  4. perish
  5. fate
  6. fall
Noun
  • Rendered with all of the rich detail and disarming atmospherics that have characterized his work to date, Nosferatu is Eggers at the height of his powers: an astonishing, meticulously crafted, and oddly touching parable about desire, disease, and death.
    Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 16 Jan. 2025
  • In the last five years, suicide has been the third leading cause of death in Tarrant County for children between the ages of 10 and 19, according to data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
    Ciara McCarthy, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 Jan. 2025
Definition of death
Verb
  • Jeffrey Takeyama Jeffrey Takeyama, 69, died in the Palisades Fire.
    Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 17 Jan. 2025
  • In Kansas, the State Child Death Review Board reported that no children died of fentanyl in 2017 through 2019, 11 died in 2020 and nine died in 2021.
    Laura Bauer, Kansas City Star, 16 Jan. 2025
Definition of die
Noun
  • Unfortunately, the 400-year-old oak met its demise when a wind storm tore through town in 1942.
    Jessica Farthing, Southern Living, 2 Jan. 2025
  • Time was, his departure from Anfield prompted end-of-days talk on Merseyside, with fans sobbing on radio phone-ins and rivals predicting the demise of Liverpool as a Premier League force.
    The Athletic UK Staff, The Athletic, 31 Dec. 2024
Definition of demise
Verb
  • Decades later, in 2002, the truth was revealed at The Second World Space Congress—that is, Laika perished within hours of launching.
    Scott Travers, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2025
  • More than 100,000 Dutch Jews perished—roughly 75 percent of the country’s Jewish population.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Jan. 2025
Definition of perish
Noun
  • There had been broad speculation about the fate of the show given the wildfires that have destroyed neighborhoods around LA during the past week, several of which are still largely uncontained.
    Cathy Applefeld Olson, Forbes, 13 Jan. 2025
  • At issue now is the fate of the two-volume report that Smith and his team had prepared about their twin investigations into Trump's efforts to overturn the results of his 2020 election and his hoarding of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago estate.
    Democrat-Gazette staff from wire reports, arkansasonline.com, 12 Jan. 2025
Definition of fate
Verb
  • On paper, the movie is a very American epic—the rise and fall of a master builder, told as extravagantly as possible on 70-millimeter VistaVision, a largely obsolete film format that was predominantly used in the 1950s and ’60s.
    David Sims, The Atlantic, 10 Jan. 2025
  • This is a negligible amount compared with the more than 3.5 inches that fall during that period in an average year.
    Ned Kleiner, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2025
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