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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life; "She died from cancer"; "The children perished in the fire"; "The patient went peacefully"; "The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102" [syn: die, decease, perish, go, exit, pass away, expire, pass, kick the bucket, cash in one's chips, buy the farm, conk, give-up the ghost, drop dead, pop off, choke, croak, snuff it] [ant: be born]
2: go out of existence; "She hoped that the problem would eventually pass away"

Merriam Webster's

intransitive verb Date: 13th century 1. to go out of existence 2. die 1

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

You can say that someone passed away to mean that they died, if you want to avoid using the word 'die' because you think it might upset or offend people. He unfortunately passed away last year. PHRASAL VERB: V P

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

I. (Active.) Spend, waste. II. (Neuter.) 1. Elapse, lapse, pass, glide, slip away. 2. Move from sight, vanish. 3. Die. 4. Be spent, be lost.

Moby Thesaurus

be all over, be annihilated, be consumed, be destroyed, be done for, be gone, be lost, be no more, be superseded, be wiped out, become extinct, become void, blow over, cash in, cease, cease to be, cease to exist, cease to live, come to naught, come to nothing, conk out, decease, dematerialize, demise, depart, depart this life, die, die away, die out, disappear, dispel, disperse, dissipate, dissolve, do a fade-out, drop, dwindle, elapse, end, erode, evanesce, evaporate, exit, expire, fade, fade away, fade out, fall, fall asleep, fall into disuse, flee, fleet, flit, fly, go, go away, go out, have it, have its time, hide, lapse, leave no trace, leave the scene, melt, melt away, melt like snow, obsolesce, part, pass, pass on, pass out, pass over, peg out, perish, peter out, put off mortality, quit this world, retire from sight, return to dust, run its course, run out, sink, sink away, stop breathing, succumb, suffer an eclipse, superannuate, up and die, vanish, vanish from sight, waste, waste away, wear away, wear off, yield the ghost