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1. Dead
   "he is deceased";
   - asleep, at peace, at rest, departed, gone

1. Someone who is no longer alive
   "I wonder what the deceased person would have done";
   - dead person, dead soul, deceased person, decedent [US], departed

1. Pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
   - die, perish, go, exit, pass away, expire, pass, kick the bucket, cash in one's chips, buy the farm [N. Amer], conk, give-up the ghost, drop dead, pop off, choke, croak, snuff it, pop one's clogs

Derived forms: deceaseds

See also: dead

Type of: change state, individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul, turn

Part of: dead

Encyclopedia: Deceased