# deceased

Pronunciation: US say "dee-SEEST" /diˈsist/; UK say "di-SEEST" /dɪˈsiːst/

## Adjective

1. No longer alive, having died.
   - Simple: Dead, or no longer living.
   - _The letter was addressed to a tenant who had been deceased for years._
   - _Police are still trying to reach relatives of the deceased driver._
3. Belonging to a person who has died.
   - Simple: Owned by or left by someone who has died.
   - _The house was listed as a deceased estate and sold within a week._
   - _Settling a large deceased estate can keep an executor busy for months._
4. Overwhelmed to the point of feeling figuratively dead, said in exaggeration.
   - Simple: So overwhelmed by something that you joke you have died.
   - _She sent me a photo of his new haircut, and I am deceased._
   - _My dad just tried to explain memes to my grandma, and I'm deceased._

## Noun

2. A person who has died, or those who have died; in a criminal case, the victim of a homicide.
   - Simple: A person or people who have died, or the person killed in a crime.
   - _The coroner testified that the deceased had suffered a single blow to the head._
   - _Prayers for the deceased were read at the end of the service._

## Origin

From decease + -ed. Decease comes from Middle English deceas, via Old French, from Latin dēcessus (“departure”), from dēcēdō, dēcēdere (“to go away”).

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/deceased (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).