dead
deceased Idioms
the deceased
the dead person or persons
This person is deceased.
- The definition of deceased is someone who has died.
An example of deceased is a description for your friend that died last year.
- Deceased is defined as a dead person.
An example of deceased is someone who has been murdered.
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Adjective
(not comparable)
Usage notes
- Not to be confused with diseased (affected with or suffering from disease)
Noun
(plural deceased)
Usage notes
Deceased is commonly used in legal and journalistic settings. Departed is most commonly used in religious settings.
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deceased - Medical Definition
adj.
No longer living; dead.
n.
pl. deceasedA dead person.
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Sentence Examples
- Others poured libations on the tombs of deceased relatives.
- The only picture was of a teenage boy, apparently the deceased brother.
- 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.
- ANCESTOR-WORSHIP, a general name for the cult of deceased parents and forefathers.
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