decease
/dɪˈsiːs/
decease noun: death, departure from life.
Noun
decease (countable and uncountable, plural deceases)
- Death, departure from life.
- So should that beauty which you hold in lease
Find no determination: then you were
Yourself again after yourself's decease […]1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 13”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC - 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.1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC
- Synonyms:
- demise, quietus, death, end, tomb, celestial transfer, decomposition, defunction, dematerialization, dirt nap
- So should that beauty which you hold in lease
Verb
decease (third-person singular simple present deceases, present participle deceasing, simple past and past participle deceased)
- To die.
- After which usurped victorie, he presently deceased: and partly through the excessive joy he thereby conceived.1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 17, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC
- Synonyms:
- expire, perish, assume room temperature, auger in, be called home, be gathered to one's fathers, be like the the One, be no more, be with Jesus, be with the Lord
- To cause to die.
decease meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada
decease in Tamil
- இற, இறப்பு, சாவு
decease in Bengali
- departure, especially departure from this life; death
- মৃত্যু mrittu, ওফাত ofat
decease in Malayalam
- departure, especially departure from this life; death
- മരണം maraṇaṁ
decease in Kannada
- ಸಾಯು, ತೀರಿಹೋಗು
More languagesFewer languages
- decease in Sanskrit
- गच्छति gácchati
- decease in Arabic
- رحل عن الحياة
- decease in Vietnamese
- chết, mất, qua đời
Synonyms of decease
30 more synonymsFewer synonyms
- exit
- expiration
- fatality
- liquidation
- mortality
- passing
- repose
- sunset
- the big sleep
- crash
- downfall
- fall
- (the) bane
- (the) end
- expire
- perish
- assume room temperature
- auger in
- be called home
- be like the the One
- be no more
- be with Jesus
- be with the Lord
- bite the big one
- bite the biscuit
- bite the dust
- buy the farm
- buy it
- cark it
- cash in
Forms of decease
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | deceases |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | deceases |
| present participle | deceasing |
| past participle | deceased |
| past | deceased |
Origin of decease
From Old French deces (Modern French décès), from Latin dēcessus (“departure”).
Words formed from decease
Words that rhyme with decease
Questions about decease
- What does decease mean?
- Decease means death, departure from life.
- What is decease in Tamil?
- Decease in Tamil is இற, இறப்பு, சாவு. See Decease meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is decease?
- Decease can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce decease?
- Decease is pronounced /dɪˈsiːs/.
- What is the plural of decease?
- The plural of decease is deceases.
Words near decease in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: decease (page history and authors); decease (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); decease (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); गच्छति (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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