Deceased is an English word with synonyms like somebody or someone. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Deceased in a sentence
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Deceased meaning
- No longer alive; dead.
- Belonging to the dead.
- One who has died.
Synonyms of Deceased
Using Deceased
- The main meaning on this page is: No longer alive; dead. | Belonging to the dead. | One who has died.
- Useful related words include: departed, somebody, someone, individual.
- In the example corpus, deceased often appears in combinations such as: the deceased, deceased and, deceased was.
Example sentences (20)
A nuclear launch has been strongly denied by Secretary McNamara, Admiral Martin (now deceased), Admiral Geis (deceased), Admiral Moorer, and America’s skipper, Admiral David Engen (deceased) and others.
Beloved wife of Reg (Deceased), Mother of Judith (Deceased).
He has three children (one deceased), and a deceased wife.
In the photo, clockwise from top left, grandmother Julia Fisher with Julian Alcaraz-Fisher, 2 (deceased); the three dogs that died in the fire; Phyllis Fisher, 85, who died; and Arya Alcarez, 1 (left, deceased), with her surviving twin.
The court also emphasized the importance of sensitizing staff in government and private hospitals on how to handle deceased bodies and interact with the attendants of the deceased with sensitivity.
When we think of prayers and the deceased, we likely think of praying for our deceased family members and friends.
Beloved husband of the late Margaret, much loved father of Jennifer (deceased), Elizabeth, Christopher (deceased), and Richard, a treasured grandfather and great-grandfather.
The body of the deceased was handed over to his family after post-mortem, the officials said, adding the relatives of the deceased blocked the main road near Mathyal to protest his “custodial death”.
The shooting reportedly occurred during a repast, a meal shared by family and friends of the deceased person after a funeral service as a way to reminisce, celebrate and honor the deceased after the formal services are over.
According to him, the deceased concealed his health status “but the task force’s attention was called by a neighbour to the deceased who noticed that he was seriously ill upon his return from Bauchi”.
From receiving the body of the deceased from the hospital to digging his grave and burying him, Fr Ninan, along with another priest and an altar boy, performed all the steps required to give the deceased an honourable burial.
He further told the court he was agitated and angry when he started hitting the deceased with a rock, as he could not understand why the deceased wanted to hit him with the panga.
The first accused had said in his confessional statement to the police that the deceased knew that his elder brother was infected with HIV and AIDs, but that the deceased never informed her about it prior to the wedding.
The identity of the deceased will be withheld until all the relatives of the deceased are officially informed of her murder.
Over the last 10 years there has been a 67 per cent increase in deceased organ donors and a 49 per cent increase in deceased donor transplants.
Therefore, by agreement with the deceased, the complainant excluded himself from being a legal and/or factual dependent of the deceased.
ASP Alejandro Cowo, CIB:“From earlier in the morning the deceased was in the deceased was in the company of his son in law Jose Ricardo Mendoza along with another male person socializing at their address.
A staff of the hotel where the deceased and her friends use as contact point for their hustling said the deceased was a commercial sex worker.
He and his friends then rushed the deceased to hospital by private transport and after a few hours the deceased passed on.
The commissioner said efforts were ongoing to recover the remains of the deceased while the operational car used by the gang, an army green Volkswagen Passat Wagon, one hammer and a cell phone belonging to the deceased had been recovered.
Common combinations with deceased
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the deceased 126×
- deceased and 12×
- deceased was 11×
- of deceased 11×
- pronounced deceased 8×
- deceased person 6×
- deceased with 5×
- deceased had 5×
- his deceased 5×
- deceased were 5×