"pay the debt of nature" meaning in English

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      "form": "pays the debt of nature",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "paying the debt of nature",
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        "participle",
        "present"
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    },
    {
      "form": "paid the debt of nature",
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        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "paid the debt of nature",
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        "past"
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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          "name": "Death",
          "orig": "en:Death",
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            "Body",
            "Life",
            "All topics",
            "Nature",
            "Fundamental"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1828, Henry Hunter, Sacred biography, or, The history of the patriarchs, volume 1, page 36:",
          "text": "The venerable father of the human race had now himself paid the debt of nature.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1850, T. S. Arthur, “Deacon Smith and his Violin”, in Sketches of Life and Character, Philadelphia: J. W. Bradley, →OCLC, page 76:",
          "text": "Ten years after he had seen his son married^([sic]), become a church member, and give up his carnal delights, old Deacon Smith paid the debt of nature. His last days he always called his best days.",
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        }
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      "glosses": [
        "To die."
      ],
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        [
          "die",
          "die"
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        "(euphemistic) To die."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "pay nature's debt"
        }
      ],
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      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "pay the debt of nature"
}

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        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "paying the debt of nature",
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        "participle",
        "present"
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    },
    {
      "form": "paid the debt of nature",
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        "past"
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    },
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      "form": "paid the debt of nature",
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        "past"
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        "To die."
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          "die"
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        "(euphemistic) To die."
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        {
          "word": "pay nature's debt"
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