• (British) IPA: /dɪˈsiːs/

decease

1. (formal) Death, departure from life.
   • 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 13:

     So should that beauty which you hold in lease

     Find no determination: then you were

     Yourself again after yourself's decease […]

• French: décès
• German: Ableben, Exitus, Hinschied
• Italian: decesso
• Portuguese: falecimento
• Spanish: fallecimiento, deceso, óbito, defunción

decease (deceases, present participle deceasing; past and past participle deceased)

1. (now, rare) To die.
   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 17, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes, […], book II, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821 ↗:

     After which usurped victorie, he presently deceased: and partly through the excessive joy he thereby conceived.

• See also Thesaurus:die

• French: décéder, expirer, mourir, trépasser
• German: ableben, hinscheiden, dahinscheiden
• Italian: morire
• Portuguese: falecer
• Spanish: fallecer