DECEASING Synonyms: 46 Similar and Opposite Words

deceasing

verb

present participle of decease

as in dying

to stop living no one knows what happened to the family fortune after the spinster deceased

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The effect was named after Nelson Mandela, who many people seemed to remember dying in the 1980s while in prison in South Africa; he actually had been released from jail, served as President of South Africa and died in 2013.

— Victoria Edel, PEOPLE, 27 July 2026
My peach tree is developing white growths on the limbs and some are dying.

— Tom MacCubbin, The Orlando Sentinel, 25 July 2026

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Global markets were also mixed, with South Korea’s Kospi stock index falling another 6% Wednesday as doubts over massive investments in artificial intelligence once again led investors to dump chipmakers’ shares.

— Yuri Kageyama, Fortune, 29 July 2026
Hikers in an area of the San Bernardino National Forest are being warned of falling rocks after one woman was injured, and another woman died after she was suspected to have been hit in the head by a large boulder.

— Paris Barraza, USA Today, 29 July 2026

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Julie Chen Moonves shares her thoughts on that wild Big Brother premiere, including Rachel Reilly perishing in a volcano.

— Dalton Ross, Entertainment Weekly, 10 July 2026
Authorities have publicly identified four people who lost their lives over the last week in San Diego County traffic crashes, with three of the victims perishing in head-on collisions in the eastern reaches of the region.

— City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 May 2026

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