- 1. n. Departure, especially departure from this life; death. Source: opted
- 2. v. i. To depart from this life; to die; to pass away. Source: opted
- 3. n. the event of dying or departure from life Source: wordnet
- 4. v. pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life Source: wordnet
- 5. Departure, especially departure from this life; death. His decease, which he should accomplish at Jerusalem. Luke ix. 31. And I, the whilst you mourn for his decease, Will with my mourning plaints your plaint increase. Spenser. Syn. -- Death; departure; dissolution; demise; release. See Death. To depart from this life; to die; to pass away. She's dead, deceased, she's dead. Shak. When our summers have deceased. Tennyson. Inasmuch as he carries the malignity and the lie with him, he so far deceases from nature. Emerson. Source: webster
- 6. Departure, especially departure from this life; death.His decease, which he should accomplish at Jerusalem. Luke ix. 31.And I, the whilst you mourn for his decease, Will with my mourningplaints your plaint increase. Spenser. Source: adambom
- 7. n:100 n the event of dying or departure from life v pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life Source: ecdict
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