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deceased

[ dih-seest ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

the deceased,
1. the particular dead person or persons referred to.
2. dead persons collectively:
  to speak well of the deceased.

deceased

/ dɪˈsiːst /

First recorded in 1480–90; decease + -ed ²

See dead.

When Garfield moved to the big screen in 2004 and 2006, it was fitting for Bill Murray to replace the deceased actor.

Byrne invented a deceased husband named William K. Richard and hid herself from census takers.

Ken Russell, the now sadly deceased British film director, told me he considered Jarman a visionary.

During the time of the pharaohs, such funerary vessels were used to store the organs of the deceased.

By 1915, mourning attire had begun to draw more attention to the mourner than to the deceased, drawing critics to the practice.

On one occasion he took the liberty, while preaching, to denounce a rich man in the community, recently deceased.

Her testimony diametrically opposes several 119 items which McCracken has written into the unsigned testament of the deceased.

They name the deceased child an angelito, (little angel), and adorn it in every possible way.

A grave-digger was carrying one of these deceased angels to the churchyard, when he stept into a tavern to take a dram.

He had been dead three days, and his friends were awaiting Tati to pay the last honours to the deceased.

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