Decease
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /dɪˈsiːs/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Decease is a noun meaning (formal) Death, departure from life.
Meaning
(formal) Death, departure from life.
More Meanings
- (now rare) To die.
- (formal, transitive) To cause to die.
Example Sentences
After which usurped victorie, he presently deceased: and partly through the excessive joy he thereby conceived.
So should that beauty which you hold in lease Find no determination: then you were Yourself again after yourself's decease […]
I thought about my predecessor, who had died of drink and smoke; and I could have wished he had been so good as to live, and not bother me with his decease.
Word Forms
- deceases
- deceasing
- deceased
Synonyms for decease
Depending on context, synonyms include demise, quietus, death, tomb, decomposition, defunction.
Antonyms for decease
Common opposites include nascence, nascency, birth, nativity.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include die, expire, perish, death, exit, go.
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