decease

1. 1.

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

   “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”

   Synonymsdieperishgoexitpass awayexpirepasskick the bucketcash in one's chipsbuy the farmconkgive-up the ghostdrop deadpop off

   Broaderchange state

   Narrowerabortsuffocatebuy itdrownpredeceasestarvefallsuccumb

Other forms of decease

plural

deceases·

past tense

deceased·

present participle

deceasing·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about decease

What does decease mean?

decease means "the event of dying or departure from life". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in decease?

decease has 2 syllables: de-cease. The stress falls on "cease". In IPA it is /dɪˈsis/.

What is another word for decease?

Close synonyms include death, expiry, die, perish, go. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is decease a common word?

decease is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with decease?

2 words rhyme with decease. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.