decease Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the event of dying or departure from life
    death; expiry.
    • her death came as a terrible shock
    • upon your decease the capital will pass to your grandchildren
  2. verb pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
    give-up the ghost; pop off; perish; die; buy the farm; snuff it; choke; drop dead; pass away; expire; exit; croak; pass; go; kick the bucket; conk; cash in one's chips.
    • 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

WordNet

De*cease" noun
Etymology
OE. deses, deces, F. décès, fr. L. decessus departure, death, fr. decedere to depart, die; de- + cedere to withdraw. See Cease, Cede.
Definitions
  1. Departure, especially departure from this life; death.
    His decease, which he should accomplish at Jerusalem. Luke ix. 31.
    And I, the whilst you mourn for his decease, Will with my mourning plaints your plaint increase. Spenser.
    Syn. -- Death; departure; dissolution; demise; release. See Death.
De*cease" intransitive verb
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Deceased ; present participle & verbal noun Deceasing
Definitions
  1. To depart from this life; to die; to pass away.
    She's dead, deceased, she's dead. Shak.
    When our summers have deceased. Tennyson.
    Inasmuch as he carries the malignity and the lie with him, he so far deceases from nature. Emerson.

Webster 1913