pay the debt of nature

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English

Verb

pay the debt of nature

  1. (euphemistic) To die.
    • 1828, Henry Hunter, Sacred biography, or, The history of the patriarchs (volume 1, page 36)
      The venerable father of the human race had now himself paid the debt of nature.
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