deceased
IPA: dɪsˈist
noun
- A dead person.
- (law) 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.
adjective
- No longer alive; dead.
- Belonging to the dead.
- (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.
- (hyperbolic) Overwhelmed to the point of being figuratively dead.
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Examples of "deceased" in Sentences
- The man is deceased.
- Some of the deceased were meritorious soldiers.
- Disparaging the deceased is still disparagement.
- The ghost retained the personality of the deceased.
- Unethical treatment of the deceased is unacceptable.
- Crematoria were constructed to dispose of the deceased.
- There should be sentiments for the kindred of the deceased.
- It is assigned for the grandson of the deceased maternal grandfather.
- The contents of the betel pouch of the deceased were eaten after his death.
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