decease
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Is decease a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle No
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What is the meaning of decease?
Definition
noun (English)
1. (formal) Death, departure from life.Examples: "So should that beauty which you hold in lease Find no determination: then you were Yourself again after yourself's decease […]"; "I thought about my predecessor, who had died of drink and smoke; and I could have wished he had been so good as to live, and not bother me with his decease."Synonyms: demise, quietus, death, celestial transfer, decease, decomposition, defunction, dematerializationcountableformaluncountable
verb (English)
1. (now rare) To die.Examples: "After which usurped victorie, he presently deceased: and partly through the excessive joy he thereby conceived."Synonyms: expire, perish, assume room temperature, auger in, be called home, be gathered to one's fathers, be no more, be with Jesusarchaic
2. (formal, transitive) To cause to die.formaltransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary