decease

English

Etymology

From Old French deces (Modern French décès), from Latin dēcessus (“departure”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dɪˈsiːs/
• Rhymes: -iːs

Noun

decease (countable and uncountable, plural deceases)

1. (formal) Death, departure from life.
   • 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 13:

     So should that beauty which you hold in lease

     Find no determination: then you were

     Yourself again after yourself's decease […]

Translations

departure, especially departure from this life; death

• Arabic: رحل عن الحياة
• Armenian: վախճան (hy) (vaxčan)
• Bulgarian: смърт (bg) f (smǎrt), кончина (bg) f (končina)
• Catalan: defunció (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 死亡 (zh) (sǐwáng)

• French: décès (fr)
• Galician: falecemento (gl) m, pasamento (gl) m, óbito (gl) m, finamento (gl) m
• German: Ableben (de), Exitus (de), Hinschied
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• Italian: decesso (it)
• Japanese: 他界 (ja) (takai), 物故 (ja) (bukko), 死去 (ja) (shikyo)
• Malayalam: മരണം (ml) (maraṇaṁ)
• Portuguese: falecimento (pt)
• Spanish: fallecimiento (es), deceso (es), óbito (es), defunción (es)

Verb

1. (now rare) To die.
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Usage notes

The noun and verb forms are much less commonly used than the participial adjective "deceased", particularly outside formal, literary, or legal usage.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:die

Translations

to die

• Bulgarian: умирам (bg) (umiram)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 死亡 (zh) (sǐwáng)，去世 (zh) (qùshì)

• French: décéder (fr), expirer (fr), mourir (fr), trépasser (fr)
• German: ableben, hinscheiden (de), dahinscheiden (de)
• Italian: morire (it)
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• Japanese: 他界する (ja) (takai suru), 亡くなる (ja) (nakunaru), 死去する (ja) (shikyo suru)
• Portuguese: falecer (pt)
• Spanish: fallecer (es)