deceased

UK /dɪˈsiːst/ US /dɪˈsiːst/
adj 4noun 2

Definitions

adj

1

No longer alive; dead.

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.

2

Belonging to the dead.

The executor's commission for winding up the deceased estate was 3.5%.

3

One who has died.

4

Overwhelmed to the point of being figuratively dead.

You look so good, I'm deceased!

I am deceased, my nuts have been busted.

noun

1

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

The deceased was interred in his local churchyard.

a memorial to the deceased of two World Wars

2

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, he could not say.

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