deceased
- Adjective. No longer alive.
- Adjective. Belonging to the dead.
- Adjective. (legal) : One who has died. In '''property law''', the alternate term decedent is generally used. In '''criminal law''', “the deceased” refers to the victim of a homicide.
- Noun. A dead person.
- Noun. (''plural'' '''deceased''') dead people.
- Noun. (legal) : One who has died. In '''property law''', the alternate term decedent is generally used. In '''criminal law''', “the deceased” refers to the victim of a homicide.
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