verb
1. pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life (Freq. 3)
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She died from cancer
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The children perished in the fire
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The patient went peacefully
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The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102
• Syn:
↑die, ↑decease, ↑perish, ↑go, ↑exit, ↑expire, ↑pass, ↑kick the bucket, ↑cash in one's chips, ↑buy the farm, ↑conk, ↑give-up the ghost, ↑drop dead, ↑pop off, ↑choke, ↑croak, ↑snuff it
• Derivationally related forms:
↑passing (for: ↑pass), ↑expiration (for: ↑expire), ↑exit (for: ↑exit), ↑going (for: ↑go), ↑decedent (for: ↑decease), ↑decease (for: ↑decease), ↑death (for: ↑die), ↑Death (for: ↑die)
• Hypernyms: ↑change state, ↑turn
• Hyponyms:
↑abort, ↑suffocate, ↑stifle, ↑asphyxiate, ↑buy it, ↑pip out, ↑drown, ↑predecease, ↑starve, ↑famish, ↑fall, ↑succumb, ↑yield
• Verb Group:
• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s
2. go out of existence (Freq. 1)
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She hoped that the problem would eventually pass away
• Verb Frames:
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Something ——s
Useful english dictionary. 2012.