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English noun: decease | |||
| 1. | decease (event) the event of dying or departure from life | ||
| Samples | Her death came as a terrible shock. Upon your decease the capital will pass to your grandchildren. | ||
| Synonyms | death, expiry | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | alteration, change, modification | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | departure, exit, expiration, fatality, going, human death, loss, martyrdom, megadeath, passing, release, wrongful death | ||
| Instance hyponym | Crucifixion | ||
| Antonyms | nascence, nascency, nativity, birth | ||
English verb: decease | |||
| 1. | decease (change) pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life | ||
| Samples | She died from cancer. The children perished in the fire. The patient went peacefully. The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102. | ||
| Synonyms | buy the farm, cash in one's chips, choke, conk, croak, die, drop dead, exit, expire, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass, pass away, perish, pop off, snuff it | ||
| Pattern of use | Somebody ----s | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | change state, turn | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | abort, asphyxiate, buy it, drown, fall, famish, pip out, predecease, starve, stifle, succumb, suffocate, yield | ||
| Verb group | break, break down, conk out, die, die, fail, give out, give way, go, go bad | ||
| Antonyms | be born | ||
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