decease

English

Etymology

Old French deces (French décès).

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /dɪˈsiːs/
Rhymes: -iːs

Noun

decease (countable and uncountable, plural deceases)

(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 f
French: décès (fr)
German: Ableben (de), Exitus (de), Hinschied

Italian: decesso (it)
Japanese: 他界 (ja) (takai), 物故 (ja) (bukko), 死去 (ja) (shikyo)
Malayalam: മരണം (ml) (maraṇaṃ)
Portuguese: falecimento (pt)
Spanish: fallecimiento (es), deceso (es), óbito (es), defunción (es)

Verb

decease (third-person singular simple present deceases, present participle deceasing, simple past and past participle deceased)

(now rare) To die.
- 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, chapter 17, in The Essayes, […], book II, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:
  After which usurped victorie, he presently deceased: and partly through the excessive joy he thereby conceived.

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

French: décéder (fr), expirer (fr), mourir (fr), trépasser (fr)
Italian: morire (it)
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)

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