| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | The act or fact of dying: death, demise, dissolution, extinction, passing, quietus, rest1. Slang : curtain (used in plural). See LIVE. | | VERB: | To cease living: demise, depart, die, drop, expire, go, pass away, pass (on), perish, succumb. Informal : pop off. Slang : check out, croak, kick in, kick off. Idioms: bite the dust, breathe one's last, cash in, give up the ghost, go to one's grave, kick the bucket, meet one's end (or Maker) , pass on to the Great Beyond, turn up one's toes. See LIVE.
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