| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| VERB: | 1. To cease living: decease, demise, depart, 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. 2. To cease to exist. Away or out: disappear, expire. See LIVE. 3. To become inaudible. Away, out, or down: fade, fade out. See INCREASE. 4. To become or cause to become less active or intense. Away, down, off, or out: abate, bate, ease (off or up), ebb, fall, fall off, lapse, let up, moderate, remit, slacken, slack off, subside, wane. See INCREASE.
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