deceasing

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deceasing - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Decease \De*cease"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Deceased; p. pr. &
     vb. n. Deceasing.]
     To depart from this life; to die; to pass away.
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           She's dead, deceased, she's dead.        --Shak.
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           When our summers have deceased.          --Tennyson.
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           Inasmuch as he carries the malignity and the lie with
           him, he so far deceases from nature.     --Emerson.
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