Synonyms

die perish go expire exit pass decease

Examples

"She died from cancer" "They children perished in the fire" "The patient went peacefully"

Used in print

Cousin_Joshua_Dover decided to remain with the Reverend and poor Isaac_Pitt until life passed_away - and he was hurt so badly he did not seem for long in this world .

And all this too shall pass_away : it came to him out of some dim corner of memory from a church_service when he was a boy - yes , in a white church with a thin spur steeple in the patriarchal Hudson_Valley , where a feeling of plenitude was normal in those English Dutch manors with their well-fed squires .

Related terms

be_born change_state starve fall drown kick_the_bucket buy_it suffocate predecease suffocate succumb die_out die_out die_back die_down fail die death death death Death death death loss dead_person

Examples

"She hoped that the problem would eventually pass away"

Used in print

But a historian might put his finger on a specific man and date , and hold_out the hope that the troubles will sometime pass_away .

Related terms

terminate end