Word Meanings - DECEASE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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. --

Additional info about word: DECEASE

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. (more info) departure, death, fr. decedere to depart, die; de- + cedere to

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DECEASE)

• Death
• Departure
• demise
• decease
• dissolution
• mortality
• fall
• failure
• termination
• cessation
• expiration
• release
• exit
• Die
• Expire
• depart
• perish
• decline
• disappear
• wither
• languish
• wane
• sink
• fade
• decay
• cease

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of DECEASE)

• Rise
• grow
• increase
• flourish
• luxuriate
• vegetate
• expand
• enlarge
• Bind
• constrain
• confine
• shackle
• fetter
• yoke

Related words: (words related to DECEASE)

• DISAPPEARING
  p. pr. & vb. n. of Disappear. Disappearing carriage , a carriage for heavy coast guns on which the gun is raised above the parapet for firing and upon discharge is lowered behind the parapet for protection. The standard type of disappearing
• DEATHLIKE
  1. Resembling death. A deathlike slumber, and a dead repose. Pope. 2. Deadly. "Deathlike dragons." Shak.
• EXPAND
  To become widely opened, spread apart, dilated, distended, or enlarged; as, flowers expand in the spring; metals expand by heat; the heart expands with joy. Dryden.
• DEATHLINESS
  The quality of being deathly; deadliness. Southey.
• ENLARGEMENT
  1. The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion. 2. Expansion or extension, as of the powers of the mind; ennoblement, as of the feelings and character; as, an
• PERISHMENT
  The act of perishing. Udall.
• DEPARTURE
  The desertion by a party to any pleading of the ground taken by him in his last antecedent pleading, and the adoption of another. Bouvier. (more info) 1. Division; separation; putting away. No other remedy . . . but absolute departure. Milton.
• DEPARTMENT
  1. Act of departing; departure. Sudden departments from one extreme to another. Wotton. 2. A part, portion, or subdivision. 3. A distinct course of life, action, study, or the like; appointed sphere or walk; province. Superior to Pope in Pope's
• EXPIRATION
  The act or process of breathing out, or forcing air from the lungs through the nose or mouth; as, respiration consists of inspiration and expiration; -- opposed to Ant: inspiration. Emission of volatile matter; exhalation. The true cause of cold
• PERISHABILITY
  Perishableness.
• DEPARTMENTAL
  Pertaining to a department or division. Burke.
• CONSTRAINTIVE
  Constraining; compulsory. "Any constraintive vow." R. Carew.
• CEASELESS
  Without intermission or end.
• DEATHWATCH
  A small beetle . By forcibly striking its head against woodwork it makes a ticking sound, which is a call of the sexes to each other, but has been imagined by superstitious people to presage death. A small wingless insect, of the family Psocidæ,
• EXPIRE
  1. To breathe out; to emit from the lungs; to throw out from the mouth or nostrils in the process of respiration; -- opposed to inspire. Anatomy exhibits the lungs in a continual motion of inspiring and expiring air. Harvey. This chafed the boar;
• FETTERLESS
  Free from fetters. Marston.
• SHACKLE
  1. To tie or confine the limbs of, so as to prevent free motion; to bind with shackles; to fetter; to chain. To lead him shackled, and exposed to scorn Of gathering crowds, the Britons' boasted chief. J. Philips. 2. Figuratively: To bind or confine
• INCREASE
  The period of increasing light, or luminous phase; the waxing; -- said of the moon. Seeds, hair, nails, hedges, and herbs will grow soonest if set or cut in the increase of the moon. Bacon. Increase twist, the twixt of a rifle groove in which the
• TERMINATIONAL
  Of or pertaining to termination; forming a termination.
• DECAYER
  A causer of decay.
• REINCREASE
  To increase again.
• DECAY
  To pass gradually from a sound, prosperous, or perfect state, to one of imperfection, adversity, or dissolution; to waste away; to decline; to fail; to become weak, corrupt, or disintegrated; to rot; to perish; as, a tree decays; fortunes decay;
• CONFINER
  One who, or that which, limits or restrains.
• DEATHLY
  Deadly; fatal; mortal; destructive.
• RELEASE
  To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.
• SELF-DETERMINATION
  Determination by one's self; or, determination of one's acts or states without the necessitating force of motives; -- applied to the voluntary or activity.
• PREDETERMINATION
  The act of previous determination; a purpose formed beforehand; as, the predetermination of God's will. Hammond.