💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Dead person"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| dead soulnoun | someone who is no longer alive |
| deceasednoun | No longer alive; dead. |
| deceased personnoun | someone who is no longer alive |
| decedentnoun | (law, chiefly US) A dead person. |
| departednoun | Having gone away. |
| dead bodynoun | body of a dead animal or person |
| dead letternoun | An item of mail that cannot be delivered to its intended recipient; after some time it is returned to the sender, or destroyed. |
| deadnessnoun | (philosophy) The state of not being alive; lifelessness. |
| corpsenoun | A dead body, especially that of a human as opposed to an animal. |
| deadernoun | (colloquial, chiefly humorous) One who is deceased, or will shortly become so. |
| deadmannoun | (rail transport, manufacturing, agriculture, safety equipment) A cutout device that operates in the event that an operator releases the control handles, leaves the operator's seat, or otherwise seems to be no longer present and alert. |
| dead on | (idiomatic) Exactly at. |
| death certificatenoun | A document issued by a medical practitioner, or by a registrar, certifying the date, location and cause of a person's death as later entered in an official register of deaths. |
| passed away | — |
| deathnoun | The cessation of life and all associated processes; the end of an organism's existence as an entity independent from its environment and its return to an inert, nonliving state. |
| deadened | made or become less intense |
| murderedverb | That has been murdered. |
| pass awayverb | (euphemistic, idiomatic) To die. |
| deadynoun | (British, slang, obsolete) (A nickname for) gin, or a particular kind of gin. |
| obituarynoun | A brief notice of a person's death, especially one published in a newspaper or other publication; also (obsolete), the section of a newspaper where notices of deaths are published. |
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