Decease

Definitions: Decease

Decease

Noun

1. The event of dying or departure from life: "her death came as a terrible shock"; "upon your decease the capital will pass to your grandchildren".

Verb

1. Pass from physical life and lose all all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life; "She died from cancer"; "They children perished in the fire"; "The patient went peacefully".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "decease" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Synonyms: Decease

Death

Noun: death; decease, demise; dissolution, departure, obit, release, rest, quietus, fall; loss, bereavement; mortality, morbidity.

Crosswords: Decease

Oh, nothing but hammer to you with your only decease in me ("Rock In A Hard Place (Cheshire Cat)"; performing artist: Aerosmith)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Ending with "decease": pre-decease.

Albanian

vdes (be dying, burst, croak, depart, die, die away, die down, do in, end, evaporate, expire, give up the ghost, go to glory, go under, go west, necrose, pack up, pass away, pass over, perish, pop off, snuff it, turn up one's toes, wither), vdekje (bane, death, departure, dissolution, doom, dying, exit, fate, quietus), fund (back, base, bed, bottom, death, decline, doom, end, ending, epilogue, extremity, finality, finish, foot, foundation, ground, Omega, petticoat, quietus, rock bottom, skirt, sole, stub, tag, tail, tailpiece, terminal, termination). (various references)

Arabic 

‏موت (bane, death, demise, dissolution, ending, exit, expiration, expiry, fate, passing, quietus), ‏مات (check in, check out, croak, depart, die, die off, end, expire, give up the ghost, go west, pass away, pass on, peg out, perish, rest in peace, snuff it, snuff out, succumb). (various references)

Bulgarian 

смърт (curtains, death, demise, departure, divide, doom, dust, dying, end, ending, exit, expiration, fatality, fate, grave, happy release, last, passing, quietus, tomb), кончина (ending). (various references)

Czech

zesnout (pass away). (various references)

Danish

konstatering af tidspunktet for dødsfaldet (establishment of the date of decease). (various references)

Dutch

vaststelling van de dag van overlijden (establishment of the date of decease), tijd waarin een weduwe niet mag hertrouwen (period after decease of husband during which a widow is not allowedto marry again). (various references)

Farsi 

مرگ (Death, Departure, Dying), مردن (Demise, Dying, Expire, Passaway, Perish, Quail), درگذشتن (Die, Passaway). (various references)

Finnish

kuolema (death). (various references)

French

décéder, décès (death, demise). (various references)

German

Sterbefall (death). (various references)

Greek 

αποθνήσκω (croak, depart, die, pass away, succumb to). (various references)

Hebrew 

מית�" (death, demise, dying, killing), מות (death, demise, fate, latter end, mortality, quietus), למות (die, expire, go west, perish, succumb), �'ויע�" (death, dying). (various references)

Hungarian

halál (death, debt of nature, ending, fate, quietus). (various references)

Indonesian

meninggal (death, pass away), kematian (bereavement, death, demise, dying). (various references)

Italian

decesso (death, demise, exitus), decedere. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

死 (death). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

し (arbitrariness, below, calling card, city, civil service, death, document, extravagance, four, luxury, magazine, master, next, official, offspring, one's mentor, order, poem, pride, recollect, records, relish, remember, selfishness, sequence, show a liking for, teacher, the Reverend, times, verse of poetry). (various references)

Manx

paarteil, geddyn baase (die, perish), eig (prosaic, stale, unexciting, vapid, wishy-washy). (various references)

Pig Latin

eceaseday.(various references)

Portuguese

morte (death, demise, doom, dying, exit, passing, quietus, quittance), morrer (bump off, depart, die, do for, exit visa, expire, go, kick the habit, part, pass away, pass degree, perish, succumb, tip off), falecimento (demise, pass, passing), falecer (die, expire, kick the bucket, pass, pass away). (various references)

Romanian

deces (death, demise), deceda (die), muri (croak, depart, die, drop off, expire, get off the hooks, go, go west, hop the perch, kick in, pack up, part, pass, pass away, pass on, pay the debt of nature, peg out, perish, suffer), moarte (death, disappearance, doom, dying, end, exit, fatality, fate, grave, parting, passage, passing, slaughter, the tomb). (various references)

Russian 

скончаться (pass away). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

preminuti (die). (various references)

Spanish

muerte (death, demise, departure, despatch, dispatch, doom, murder, passing, quietus), fallecimiento (death, demise, departure), fallecer (depart, die, pass away, pass on), bajada (declension, degradation, depreciation, descent, digression, disparagement, downfall, drop, fallal, groundling, hang, inclination, lowering, sinking, slope, subsidence, taste). (various references)

Swedish

avlida (die, expire, pass away). (various references)

Turkish

vefat etmek (pass away), vefat (deaths, demise), ölmek (belly up, bite the dust, cash in, choke, conk, croak, cross the styx, cut up, depart, die, end, exit, expire, gasp one's life out, give up the ghost, go, go belly up, go hence, go the way of all flesh, go west, hand in one's checks, hand in one's chips, hop the twig, kick the bucket, pass away, pass in, pass out, pay one's debt to nature, peg out, perish, pip, pip out, pop off, return to dust, snuff it, succumb, yield up the ghost), ölüm (bitter end, capital, deadly, death, demise, departure, dissolution, doom, dying, end, ending, exit, killing, kiss off, last, latter end, longed-for rest, mortuary, necro-, obituary, passing, passing away, quietus, rest, sleep, the great divide, the grim reaper, the reaper, tomb). (various references)

Ukranian 

сконати, смерть (bane, death, end, last, quietus), кончина (expiry), припинятися (cease, end off, end up, rupture, stop, surcease), померти (bump off, end, go west, pack up, pass away, pass in, pass out, peg out, pip out, pop off). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự qua đời (demise), sự chết (death, dying). (various references)

Welsh

ymadawiad (departure), trancedigaeth (death). (various references)

decessus, emortuam, emortuo, emortuum. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "decease": deceased, deceases. (additional references)

Words ending with "decease": predecease. (additional references)

Words containing "decease": predeceased, predeceases. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Decease" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Daceasy, Dacias, Decaisnea, deceast, deceiue, decese, Declease, D'ecosse, decuse, defease, dehesas, dekasegi, desiase, dessease, diceases, diease, dimease, Dorcase, Ducasse. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: ceased, secede.

-2 letters: aedes, cades, cased, cease, cedes, daces, eased.

-3 letters: aced, aces, cade, cads, case, cede, cees, dace, dees, ease, sade, scad, seed.

-4 letters: ace, ads, cad, cee, dee, eds, sac, sad, sae, sea, sec, see.

-5 letters: ad, ae, as, de, ed, es.

+1 letter: deceased, deceases, decrease, seedcake, seedcase.

+2 letters: antecedes, decreased, decreases, defecates, desecrate, escheated, evanesced, reaccedes, seedcakes, seedcases.

+3 letters: adherences, ascendence, cheerleads, debauchees, decadences, decameters, decenaries, dedicatees, deescalate, defeasance, delegacies, deprecates, desecrated, desecrater, desecrates, federacies, headcheese, headpieces, precreased, predecease, reascended, reeducates, researched, telecasted.

+4 letters: adolescence, advertences, antecedents, ascendences, calenderers, candescence, carpetweeds, deaconesses, decadencies, decathletes, decelerates, deescalated, deescalates, defacements, defeasances, delectables, dependances, depreciates, desecraters, eviscerated, headcheeses, predeceased, predeceases, redecorates, rededicates, reescalated.

+5 letters: adolescences, advertencies, affectedness, antecedences, ascendencies, bespectacled, candescences, cheerleaders, cladogeneses, confederates, debaucheries, decelerators, decemvirates, decerebrates, decolletages, decompensate, deconsecrate, decrepitates, degeneracies, delicatessen, deliverances, detachedness, disseverance, educatedness, educationese, endonuclease, housecleaned, necessitated, overeducates, predeceasing, sacrednesses, semidetached.

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