"decease" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /dɪˈsiːs/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-decease.wav [Southern-England] Forms: deceases [plural]
Rhymes: -iːs Etymology: From Old French deces (Modern French décès), from Latin dēcessus (“departure”). Etymology templates: {{der|en|fro|deces}} Old French deces, {{m|fr|décès}} décès, {{der|en|la|dēcessus|t=departure}} Latin dēcessus (“departure”) Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} decease (countable and uncountable, plural deceases)
  1. (formal) Death, departure from life. Tags: countable, formal, uncountable Categories (topical): Death Translations (departure, especially departure from this life; death): رحل عن الحياة (Arabic), վախճան (vaxčan) (Armenian), মৃত্যু (mrittu) (Bengali), ওফাত (ofat) (Bengali), смърт (smǎrt) [feminine] (Bulgarian), кончина (končina) [feminine] (Bulgarian), defunció [feminine] (Catalan), 死亡 (sǐwáng) (Chinese Mandarin), skon [masculine] (Czech), smrt [feminine] (Czech), kuolema (Finnish), poismeno (Finnish), décès (French), falecemento [masculine] (Galician), pasamento [masculine] (Galician), óbito [masculine] (Galician), finamento [masculine] (Galician), Ableben (German), Exitus (German), Hinschied (German), decesso (Italian), 他界 (takai) (Japanese), 物故 (bukko) (Japanese), 死去 (shikyo) (Japanese), മരണം (maraṇaṁ) (Malayalam), død [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), bortgang [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), falecimento (Portuguese), fallecimiento (Spanish), deceso (Spanish), óbito (Spanish), defunción (Spanish), bortgång (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-decease-en-noun-fCMcWoMP Disambiguation of Death: 90 10 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 73 27 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 88 12

Verb

IPA: /dɪˈsiːs/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-decease.wav [Southern-England] Forms: deceases [present, singular, third-person], deceasing [participle, present], deceased [participle, past], deceased [past]
Rhymes: -iːs Etymology: From Old French deces (Modern French décès), from Latin dēcessus (“departure”). Etymology templates: {{der|en|fro|deces}} Old French deces, {{m|fr|décès}} décès, {{der|en|la|dēcessus|t=departure}} Latin dēcessus (“departure”) Head templates: {{en-verb}} decease (third-person singular simple present deceases, present participle deceasing, simple past and past participle deceased)
  1. (now rare) To die. Tags: archaic Derived forms: predecease, postdecease Translations (to die): умирам (umiram) (Bulgarian), 死亡 (sǐwáng) (Chinese Mandarin), 去世 (qùshì) (Chinese Mandarin), décéder (French), expirer (French), mourir (French), trépasser (French), ableben (German), hinscheiden (German), dahinscheiden (German), morire (Italian), 他界する (takai suru) (Japanese), 亡くなる (nakunaru) (Japanese), 死去する (shikyo suru) (Japanese), falecer (Portuguese), fallecer (Spanish), chết (Vietnamese), mất (Vietnamese), qua đời (Vietnamese)
    Sense id: en-decease-en-verb-jx6TKsZL

Inflected forms

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      "word": "кончина"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "departure, especially departure from this life; death",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "defunció"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "sǐwáng",
      "sense": "departure, especially departure from this life; death",
      "word": "死亡"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "departure, especially departure from this life; death",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "skon"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "departure, especially departure from this life; death",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "smrt"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "departure, especially departure from this life; death",
      "word": "kuolema"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "departure, especially departure from this life; death",
      "word": "poismeno"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "departure, especially departure from this life; death",
      "word": "décès"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "departure, especially departure from this life; death",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "falecemento"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "departure, especially departure from this life; death",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "pasamento"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "departure, especially departure from this life; death",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "óbito"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "departure, especially departure from this life; death",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "finamento"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "departure, especially departure from this life; death",
      "word": "Ableben"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "departure, especially departure from this life; death",
      "word": "Exitus"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "departure, especially departure from this life; death",
      "word": "Hinschied"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "departure, especially departure from this life; death",
      "word": "decesso"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "takai",
      "sense": "departure, especially departure from this life; death",
      "word": "他界"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "bukko",
      "sense": "departure, especially departure from this life; death",
      "word": "物故"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "shikyo",
      "sense": "departure, especially departure from this life; death",
      "word": "死去"
    },
    {
      "code": "ml",
      "lang": "Malayalam",
      "roman": "maraṇaṁ",
      "sense": "departure, especially departure from this life; death",
      "word": "മരണം"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "departure, especially departure from this life; death",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "død"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "departure, especially departure from this life; death",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "bortgang"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "departure, especially departure from this life; death",
      "word": "falecimento"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "departure, especially departure from this life; death",
      "word": "fallecimiento"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "departure, especially departure from this life; death",
      "word": "deceso"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "departure, especially departure from this life; death",
      "word": "óbito"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "departure, especially departure from this life; death",
      "word": "defunción"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "departure, especially departure from this life; death",
      "word": "bortgång"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "death"
  ],
  "word": "decease"
}

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    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms derived from Latin",
    "English terms derived from Old French",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "English uncountable nouns",
    "English verbs",
    "Rhymes:English/iːs",
    "Rhymes:English/iːs/2 syllables",
    "en:Death"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "predecease"
    },
    {
      "word": "postdecease"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
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      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fro",
        "3": "deces"
      },
      "expansion": "Old French deces",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fr",
        "2": "décès"
      },
      "expansion": "décès",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "dēcessus",
        "t": "departure"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin dēcessus (“departure”)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Old French deces (Modern French décès), from Latin dēcessus (“departure”).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "deceases",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "deceasing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "deceased",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "deceased",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
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      "args": {},
      "expansion": "decease (third-person singular simple present deceases, present participle deceasing, simple past and past participle deceased)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with rare senses"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To die."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "die",
          "die"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(now rare) To die."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "archaic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/dɪˈsiːs/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-iːs"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-decease.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/67/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-decease.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-decease.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/67/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-decease.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-decease.wav.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "umiram",
      "sense": "to die",
      "word": "умирам"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "sǐwáng",
      "sense": "to die",
      "word": "死亡"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "qùshì",
      "sense": "to die",
      "word": "去世"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to die",
      "word": "décéder"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to die",
      "word": "expirer"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to die",
      "word": "mourir"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "to die",
      "word": "trépasser"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to die",
      "word": "ableben"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to die",
      "word": "hinscheiden"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "to die",
      "word": "dahinscheiden"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "to die",
      "word": "morire"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "takai suru",
      "sense": "to die",
      "word": "他界する"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "nakunaru",
      "sense": "to die",
      "word": "亡くなる"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "shikyo suru",
      "sense": "to die",
      "word": "死去する"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to die",
      "word": "falecer"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to die",
      "word": "fallecer"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "to die",
      "word": "chết"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "to die",
      "word": "mất"
    },
    {
      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "to die",
      "word": "qua đời"
    }
  ],
  "word": "decease"
}

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