Deceased Definition

dĭ-sēst
adjective
Dead.
Webster's New World

(law): One who has died. In property law, the alternate term decedent is generally used. In criminal law, “the deceased” refers to the victim of a homicide.

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noun
A dead person.
American Heritage Medicine

(plural deceased) Dead people.

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(law): One who has died. In property law, the alternate term decedent is generally used. In criminal law, “the deceased” refers to the victim of a homicide.

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Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Deceased

  • the deceased

Origin of Deceased

  • decease +‎ -ed, from Middle English deceas via Old French, from Latin dēcessus (“departure”), equivalent to Latin dēced-, variation of Latin dēcēdre (“to go away”).

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Deceased Sentence Examples

  • The only picture was of a teenage boy, apparently the deceased brother.

  • Others poured libations on the tombs of deceased relatives.

  • I can't say if I knew the deceased but the Wanaka and all the mines send us so many of their workers I may have.

  • The deceased rao had declared himself a Mahommedan, and his adherents were preparing to inter his body in a magnificent tomb, when the Jarejas and other Hindus seized the corpse and consigned it to the flames, according to Hindu custom.

  • The widow and mother of the deceased prince claimed the whole of this treasure under the terms of a will which was never produced.

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Words Starting With

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Words Starting With D and Ending With D

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