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Deceased definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DECE'ASED, pp. or a. Departed from life. This is used as a passive participle. He is deceased, for he has deceased; he was deceased, for he had deceased. This use of the participle of an intransitive verb is not infrequent, but the word omitted is really has. He has deceased. It is properly an adjective, like dead.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: dead; "he is deceased"; "our dear departed friend" [syn: asleep, at peace, at rest, deceased, departed, gone] n
1: someone who is no longer alive; "I wonder what the dead person would have done" [syn: dead person, dead soul, deceased person, deceased, decedent, departed]

Merriam Webster's

I. adjective Date: 15th century no longer living; especially recently dead — used of persons Synonyms: see dead II. noun (plural deceased) Date: 1548 a dead person <the will of the deceased>

U.S. Military Dictionary

A casualty status applicable to a person who is either known to have died, determined to have died on the basis of conclusive evidence, or declared to be dead on the basis of a presumptive finding of death. The recovery of remains is not a prerequisite to determining or declaring a person deceased. See also casualty status.

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. & n. formal --adj. dead. --n. (usu. prec. by the) a person who has died, esp. recently.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Decease De*cease", v. i. [imp. & p. p. Deceased; p. pr. & vb. n. Deceasing.] 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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Deceased De*ceased", a. Passed away; dead; gone. The deceased, the dead person.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(deceased) 1. The deceased is used to refer to a particular person or to particular people who have recently died. (LEGAL) The identities of the deceased have now been determined. N-COUNT: the N 2. A deceased person is one who has recently died. (FORMAL) ...his recently deceased mother. ADJ

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Dead, defunct, departed, gone, lost, late.

Moby Thesaurus

ago, antiquated, antique, ashes, asleep, asleep in Jesus, at rest, bereft of life, blown over, body, bones, breathless, by, bygone, bypast, cadaver, called home, carcass, carrion, clay, cold, corpse, corpus delicti, croaked, crowbait, dated, dead, dead and buried, dead and gone, dead body, dead man, dead person, death-struck, decedent, defunct, demised, departed, departed this life, destitute of life, done for, dry bones, dust, earth, elapsed, embalmed corpse, exanimate, expired, extinct, fallen, finished, food for worms, forgotten, gone, gone glimmering, gone to glory, gone west, gone-by, has-been, inanimate, irrecoverable, lapsed, late, late lamented, launched into eternity, lifeless, martyred, mortal remains, mummification, mummy, no more, obsolete, organic remains, over, passe, passed, passed away, passed on, past, pushing up daisies, released, relics, reliquiae, remains, reposing, resting easy, run out, sainted, skeleton, sleeping, smitten with death, stiff, still, stillborn, taken away, taken off, tenement of clay, the dead, the deceased, the defunct, the departed, the loved one, vanished, with the Lord, with the saints, without life, without vital functions, wound up