DECEASE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does decease mean? 

• DECEASE (noun)
  The noun DECEASE has 1 sense:

1. the event of dying or departure from life

  Familiarity information: DECEASE used as a noun is very rare.

• DECEASE (verb)
  The verb DECEASE has 1 sense:

1. pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life

  Familiarity information: DECEASE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DECEASE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The event of dying or departure from life

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

death; decease; expiry

Context example:

upon your decease the capital will pass to your grandchildren

Hypernyms ("decease" is a kind of...):

alteration; change; modification (an event that occurs when something passes from one state or phase to another)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "decease"):

fatality; human death (a death resulting from an accident or a disaster)

martyrdom (death that is imposed because of the person's adherence of a religious faith or cause)

megadeath (the death of a million people)

departure; exit; expiration; going; loss; passing; release (euphemistic expressions for death)

wrongful death (a death that results from a wrongful act or from negligence; a death that can serve as the basis for a civil action for damages on behalf of the dead person's family or heirs)

Instance hyponyms:

Crucifixion (the death of Jesus by crucifixion)

Derivation:

decease (pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life)

• DECEASE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they decease    ... he / she / it deceases   
Past simple: deceased   
Past participle: deceased   
-ing form: deceasing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

buy the farm; cash in one's chips; choke; conk; croak; decease; die; drop dead; exit; expire; give-up the ghost; go; kick the bucket; pass; pass away; perish; pop off; snuff it

Context example:

The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102

Hypernyms (to "decease" is one way to...):

change state; turn (undergo a transformation or a change of position or action)

Verb group:

break; break down; conk out; die; fail; give out; give way; go; go bad (stop operating or functioning)

die (suffer or face the pain of death)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "decease"):

abort (cease development, die, and be aborted)

asphyxiate; stifle; suffocate (be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen)

buy it; pip out (be killed or die)

drown (die from being submerged in water, getting water into the lungs, and asphyxiating)

predecease (die before; die earlier than)

famish; starve (die of food deprivation)

fall (die, as in battle or in a hunt)

succumb; yield (be fatally overwhelmed)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

decease (the event of dying or departure from life)

decedent (someone who is no longer alive)

 Context examples 

Notwithstanding the lapse of time that had occurred since Mr. Heep's decease, she still wore weeds.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“I have seen the will of the deceased wife,” said he.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I did not ask what she meant by "all being over," but I suppose she referred to the expected decease of her mother and the gloomy sequel of funeral rites.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

They studied 453 retinas, the eye tissue affected by AMD, from deceased human donors with and without AMD.

(New study about genes linked to age-related macular degeneration, National Institutes of Health)

Of the 202 total deceased former players studied for the report, which included high school, college and professional players, 177 were diagnosed with CTE.

(Study: Brain Disease Found in Nearly All Deceased US Football Players, VOA News)

He is a deceased man—defunct in understanding.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Transplanted human pancreatic cells from deceased donors have been successfully used to treat people with type 1 diabetes.

(Developing Insulin-Producing Cells to Treat Diabetes, NIH)

The only document found in the pocket of the deceased was a letter from you saying that you would be with him on the night of his death.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

An indication that a subject was found in a deceased state.

(Found Dead, NCI Thesaurus)

One morning, about ten days after Mrs. Churchill's decease, Emma was called downstairs to Mr. Weston, who “could not stay five minutes, and wanted particularly to speak with her.”

(Emma, by Jane Austen)