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noun someone who is no longer alive
verb pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
adjective dead
originFrom decease + -ed, from Middle English deceas via Old French [Term?], from Latin dēcessus (“departure”), equivalent to dēced-, variation of dēcēdō, dēcēdere (“to go away”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0