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Another word for deceased

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Adjective

  1. No longer alive

    Idioms:
    See also:

    live

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Another word for deceased

Modifier
  1. See also:

    dead

    dead

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Sentence Examples

  • The only picture was of a teenage boy, apparently the deceased brother.

  • Others poured libations on the tombs of deceased relatives.

  • I can't say if I knew the deceased but the Wanaka and all the mines send us so many of their workers I may have.

  • ANCESTOR-WORSHIP, a general name for the cult of deceased parents and forefathers.

  • The deceased rao had declared himself a Mahommedan, and his adherents were preparing to inter his body in a magnificent tomb, when the Jarejas and other Hindus seized the corpse and consigned it to the flames, according to Hindu custom.

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