decease

• POS: Noun, Verb (intransitive)
• HYPHEN: de=cease

OXFORD DICTIONARY

decease, n. & v. formal esp. Law
--n. death.
--v.intr. die.

Etymology

ME f. OF deces f. L decessus f. decedere (as DE-, cedere cess- go)

THESAURUS

decease

Z, annihilation, apodosis, bane, be lost, biological death, cash in, catastrophe, cease to be, cease to live, ceasing, cessation, cessation of life, clinical death, coda, conclusion, consummation, crack of doom, crossing the bar, culmination, curtain, curtains, death, death knell, debt of nature, demise, denouement, depart, depart this life, departure, destination, destiny, die, dissolution, doom, drop, dying, ebb of life, effect, end, end of life, end point, ending, envoi, epilogue, eschatology, eternal rest, exit, expiration, expire, extinction, extinguishment, fall, fall asleep, fate, final solution, final summons, final twitch, final words, finale, finality, finger of death, finis, finish, go, go out, goal, going, going off, grave, hand of death, izzard, jaws of death, knell, last, last breath, last debt, last gasp, last muster, last rest, last roundup, last sleep, last things, last trumpet, last words, latter end, leaving life, loss of life, making an end, omega, part, parting, pass, pass away, pass on, pass over, passing, passing away, passing over, payoff, period, perish, perishing, peroration, put off mortality, quietus, quit this world, release, resolution, rest, resting place, return to dust, reward, sentence of death, shades of death, shadow of death, silence, sleep, somatic death, stop breathing, stoppage, stopping place, succumb, summons of death, swan song, term, terminal, termination, terminus, up and die, windup, yield the ghost

ROGET THESAURUS

decease

Death

N death, decease, demise, dissolution, departure, obit, release, rest, quietus, fall, loss, bereavement, mortality, morbidity, end of life &c, cessation of life &c, loss of life, extinction of life, ebb of life, death warrant, death watch, death rattle, death bed, stroke of death, agonies of death, shades of death, valley of death, jaws of death, hand of death, last breath, last gasp, last agonies, dying day, dying breath, dying agonies, chant du cygne, rigor mortis, Stygian shore, King of terrors, King Death, Death, doom, Hell's grim Tyrant, euthanasia, break up of the system, natural death, natural decay, sudden death, violent death, untimely end, watery grave, debt of nature, suffocation, asphyxia, fatal disease, death blow, necrology, bills of mortality, obituary, death song, dead, lifeless, deceased, demised, departed, defunct, extinct, late, gone, no more, exanimate, inanimate, out of the world, taken off, released, departed this life, dead and gone, dead as a doornail, dead as a doorpost, dead as a mutton, dead as a herring, dead as nits, launched into eternity, gone to one's eternal reward, gone to meet one's maker, pushing up daisies, gathered to one's fathers, numbered with the dead, dying, moribund, morient, hippocratic, in articulo, in extremis, in the jaws of death, in the agony of death, going off, aux abois, one one's last legs, on one's death bed, at the point of death, at death's door, at the last gasp, near one's end, given over, booked, with one foot in the grave, tottering on the brink of the grave, stillborn, mortuary, deadly, post obit, post mortem, life ebbs, life fails, life hangs by a thread, one's days are numbered, one's hour is come, one's race is run, one's doom is sealed, Death knocks at the door, Death stares one in the face, the breath is out of the body, the grave closes over one, sic itur ad astra, de mortuis nil nisi bonum, dulce et decorum est pro patria mori, honesta mors turpi vita potior, in adamantine chains shall death be bound, mors ultima linea rerum est, ominia mors aequat, Spake the grisly Terror, the lone couch of this everlasting sleep, nothing is certain but death and taxes.