Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to decease
Participle: deceased
Gerund: deceasing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | decease |
| you | decease |
| he;she;it | deceases |
| we | decease |
| you | decease |
| they | decease |
Perfect
| I | have deceased |
| you | have deceased |
| he;she;it | has deceased |
| we | have deceased |
| you | have deceased |
| they | have deceased |
Past
| I | deceased |
| you | deceased |
| he;she;it | deceased |
| we | deceased |
| you | deceased |
| they | deceased |
Pluperfect
| I | had deceased |
| you | had deceased |
| he;she;it | had deceased |
| we | had deceased |
| you | had deceased |
| they | had deceased |
Future
| I | will decease |
| you | will decease |
| he;she;it | will decease |
| we | will decease |
| you | will decease |
| they | will decease |
Future Perfect
| I | will have deceased |
| you | will have deceased |
| he;she;it | will have deceased |
| we | will have deceased |
| you | will have deceased |
| they | will have deceased |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | decease |
| you | decease |
| he;she;it | decease |
| we | decease |
| you | decease |
| they | decease |
Perfect
| I | have deceased |
| you | have deceased |
| he;she;it | have deceased |
| we | have deceased |
| you | have deceased |
| they | have deceased |
Imperfect
| I | deceased |
| you | deceased |
| he;she;it | deceased |
| we | deceased |
| you | deceased |
| they | deceased |
Pluperfect
| I | had deceased |
| you | had deceased |
| he;she;it | had deceased |
| we | had deceased |
| you | had deceased |
| they | had deceased |
Conditional
Present
| I | would decease |
| you | would decease |
| he;she;it | would decease |
| we | would decease |
| you | would decease |
| they | would decease |
Perfect
| I | would have deceased |
| you | would have deceased |
| he;she;it | would have deceased |
| we | would have deceased |
| you | would have deceased |
| they | would have deceased |
Imperative
| you | decease |
| we | Let's decease |
| you | decease |
Verbs conjugated like 'decease'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'decease'
deceave,
decrease,
defease,
cease,
debase,
decage,
decede,
deceive,
declare,
declass,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to stop living; to become dead
- auger in, be called home, be gathered to one's fathers, be no more, bite the big one, bite the biscuit, bite the dust, buy it, buy the farm, cark it, cash in, cash in one's chips, check out, conk out, croak, cross the Great Divide, cross the Styx, depart, disincarnate, draw one's last breath, exit, expire, flatline, forfare, give one's all, give up the ghost, go for a burton, go gentle into that good night, go the way of all flesh, go the way of the dinosaurs, go the way of the dodo, go to glory, go to one's reward, hand in one's dinner pail, hop the twig, join the choir invisible, keel over, kick the bucket, knock off, lose one's life, lose the number of one's mess, meet one's doom, meet one's end, meet one's maker, pass, pass away, pass in one's marble, pass on, pass over, pass the river, pay the debt of nature, peg out, perish, pop off, pop one's clogs, shuffle off this mortal coil, sleep with one's fathers, slip away, snuff it, succumb, take a dirt nap, die, turn up one's toes, yield up the ghost
- die
- perish, cease, expire
Antonyms
- die
- live, exist, originate, develop
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Old French deces (Modern French décès), from Latin dēcessus (“departure”).
Sample Sentences
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[...] in connection with Shakspeare and the Musical Glasses, of which we read in the Vicar of Wakefield. Near the city, is a most splendid unfinished marble structure for the Girard College, founded by a deceased gentleman of that name and of enormous wealth, which, if completed according to the original design, will be perhaps the richest edifice of modern times. But the bequest is involved in legal [...]
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[...] over, and most of the houses gone out of town for ever with their masters. To the admirers of cities it is a Barmecide Feast: a pleasant field for the imagination to rove in; a monument raised to a deceased project, with not even a legible inscription to record its departed greatness.
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The remarkable feature in the case was, that if the unfortunate deceased were not really murdered by this own son of his, he must have been murdered by his own brother. The evidence lay in a most remarkable manner, between those two. On all the suspicious points, the [...]
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[...] county. Mr. E. S. Baker was nominated and supported by Mr. Arndt. This nomination was opposed by Vinyard, who wanted the appointment to vest in his own brother. In the course of debate, the deceased made some statements which Vinyard pronounced false, and made use of violent and insulting language, dealing largely in personalities, to which Mr. A. made no reply. After the adjournment, Mr. [...]
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