Deceased 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.
deceased I. adjectiveDate: 15th century no longer living; especially recently
dead — used of persons
Synonyms:seedeadII. noun (pluraldeceased)
Date: 1548 a dead person <the will of the deceased>
deceased
(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
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.
107 Moby Thesaurus words for "deceased":
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
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