deceased

Meanings

Plural: deceased, deceaseds

Noun

• someone who is no longer alive
• Synonym of dead (“those who have died”).
• One who has died. In property law, the alternate term decedent is generally used in US English. In criminal law, “the deceased” refers to the victim of a homicide.

Verb

• pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life

Adjective Satellite

• dead
  • "he is deceased"

Adj

• No longer alive; dead.
• Belonging to the dead.
• One who has died. In property law, the alternate term decedent is generally used. In criminal law, "the deceased" refers to the victim of a homicide.
• Overwhelmed to the point of being figuratively dead.

Synonyms

asleep, at peace, at rest, buy the farm, cadaverous, cash in one's chips, choke, clay-cold, conk, croak, dead, dead person, dead soul, decease, deceased, deceased person, decedent, decedents, decomposed, defunct, departed, die, drop dead, exit, expire, expired, extinct, fey, give-up the ghost, go, gone, good, inanimate, inert, kaput, kick the bucket, late, lifeless, living impaired, low, no longer with us, no more, pass, pass away, perish, perished, pop off, reposing, resting, six feet deep, six feet under, snuff it, stiff, wasted, whilom, with God

Antonyms

be born

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