decease
PERMANENT CESSATION OF VITAL FUNCTIONS
Dead; Died; Deaths; Death and Dying; Mortally; Articulus mortis; Deathly; Fatally wounded; Deadness; Deceased; Human death; Death (medicine); Death (science); Premature death; Exitus; Dy'd; Physical death; Decease; Decedent; Death signs; Devitalized; Plant death; Ultimate sacrifice; Passing away; Technically dead; Signs of death; Indicative of death; Biological death; Exitus letalis; Religious views on death; Decedents; Religious beliefs about death; Cessation of life; Permanent rest; Perished; Permanent sleep; The way all good men go; State of death; No longer with us; Draft:Cessation of life; Deceas'd; Passed on; DEATH
¦ noun formal or Law a person's death.
¦ verb archaic die.
Origin
ME: from OFr. deces, from L. decessus 'death', past participle of decedere 'to die'.