deceased

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   No longer alive; dead.not-comparable

   • 1969, Monty Python, Dead Parrot Sketch That parrot is definitely deceased, and when I purchased it not 'alf an hour ago, you assured me that its total lack of movement was due to it bein' tired and shagged out following a prolonged squawk.
   • Publicity handouts from Dick's long-deceased record label would have us believe that he was born in Cleveland in 1952.
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   Belonging to the dead.not-comparable

   • The executor's commission for winding up the deceased estate was 3.5%.
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   One who has died.not-comparable

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   Overwhelmed to the point of being figuratively dead.excessivenot-comparable

   • You look so good, I'm deceased!

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   Synonym of dead (“those who have died”).euphemistic

   • The deceased was interred in his local churchyard.
   • a memorial to the deceased of two World Wars
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   One who has died. In property law, the alternate term decedent is generally used in US English. In criminal law, “the deceased” refers to the victim of a homicide.

   • Deceased had already made a will in his favour before her marriage, but—and Mr. Philips wagged an expressive forefinger—the prisoner was not aware of that. What had induced the deceased to make a fresh will, with the old one still extant, h

syn. departed