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DECEASED
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone who is no longer alive
Example:
I wonder what the dead person would have done
Synonyms:
dead person; dead soul; deceased; deceased person; decedent; departed
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("deceased" is a kind of...):
individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "deceased"):
infernal (an inhabitant of Hell)
living dead; zombi; zombie (a dead body that has been brought back to life by a supernatural force)
Instance hyponyms:
Lazarus (the person who Jesus raised from the dead after four days in the tomb; this miracle caused the enemies of Jesus to begin the plan to put him to death)
Holonyms ("deceased" is a member of...):
dead (people who are no longer living)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Dead
Example:
our dear departed friend
Synonyms:
asleep; at peace; at rest; deceased; departed; gone
Classified under:
Similar:
dead (no longer having or seeming to have or expecting to have life)
Domain usage:
euphemism (an inoffensive or indirect expression that is substituted for one that is considered offensive or too harsh)
III. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb decease
Context examples:
He is a deceased man—defunct in understanding.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
Scientists have found evidence of the infectious agent of sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) in the eyes of deceased CJD patients.
(Eyes of CJD patients show evidence of prions, National Institutes of Health)
Because his brother was a little eccentric—though he is not half so eccentric as a good many people—he didn't like to have him visible about his house, and sent him away to some private asylum-place: though he had been left to his particular care by their deceased father, who thought him almost a natural.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
While I picked the fruit, and she made the paste for the pies, she proceeded to give me sundry details about her deceased master and mistress, and "the childer," as she called the young people.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
The only document found in the pocket of the deceased was a letter from you saying that you would be with him on the night of his death.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Tests on deceased former professional American football players showed nearly all of them had a chronic traumatic brain disease, according to scientific research published Tuesday in the JAMA medical journal.
(Study: Brain Disease Found in Nearly All Deceased US Football Players, VOA News)
The researchers found evidence of prion infection throughout the eyes of all 11 deceased patients using real time quaking-induced conversion (RT-QuIC), a highly sensitive test that detects prion seeding activity in a sample as evidence of infection.
(Eyes of CJD patients show evidence of prions, National Institutes of Health)
Several of the dead man’s possessions—notably a small case of razors—had been found in the valet’s boxes, but he explained that they had been presents from the deceased, and the housekeeper was able to corroborate the story.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
—were questions now eagerly poured forth; the first three received a ready affirmative, the two others were passed by; and Catherine's interest in the deceased Mrs. Tilney augmented with every question, whether answered or not.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
Mr. Tiffey and myself, Mr. Copperfield, are about to examine the desks, the drawers, and other such repositories of the deceased, with the view of sealing up his private papers, and searching for a Will. There is no trace of any, elsewhere.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
