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death, decease, expiry

n. the event of dying or departure from life; "her death came as a terrible shock"; "upon your decease the capital will pass to your grandchildren"

die, decease, perish, go, exit, pass away, expire, pass, kick the bucket, cash in one's chips, buy the farm, conk, give-up the ghost, drop dead, pop off, choke, croak, snuff it

v. pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life; "She died from cancer"; "The children perished in the fire"; "The patient went peacefully"; "The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102"

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death, dying, demise

n. the time when something ends; "it was the death of all his plans"; "a dying of old hopes"

termination, expiration, expiry

n. a coming to an end of a contract period; "the expiry of his driver's license"

fade, melt

v. become less clearly visible or distinguishable; disappear gradually or seemingly; "The scene begins to fade"; "The tree trunks are melting into the forest at dusk"

subside, lessen

v. wear off or die down; "The pain subsided"

leave, depart, pull up stakes

v. remove oneself from an association with or participation in; "She wants to leave"; "The teenager left home"; "She left her position with the Red Cross"; "He left the Senate after two terms"; "after 20 years with the same company, she pulled up stakes"

die, pall, become flat

v. lose sparkle or bouquet; "wine and beer can pall"

ebb

v. fall away or decline; "The patient's strength ebbed away"

wane

v. decrease in phase; "the moon is waning"

bleach, bleach out, decolor, decolour, decolorize, decolourize, decolorise, decolourise, discolorize, discolourise, discolorise

v. remove color from; "The sun bleached the red shirt"

decrease, diminish, lessen, fall

v. decrease in size, extent, or range; "The amount of homework decreased towards the end of the semester"; "The cabin pressure fell dramatically"; "her weight fell to under a hundred pounds"; "his voice fell to a whisper"

taper

v. diminish gradually; "Interested tapered off"

fade, wither

v. lose freshness, vigor, or vitality; "Her bloom was fading"

waste, waste away, diminish

v. become diminished

shrink, shrivel

v. decrease in size, range, or extent; "His earnings shrank"; "My courage shrivelled when I saw the task before me"

lapse

v. end, at least for a long time; "The correspondence lapsed"

elapse, lapse, pass, slip by, glide by, slip away, go by, slide by, go along

v. pass by; "three years elapsed"

make, work

v. proceed along a path; "work one's way through the crowd"; "make one's way into the forest"

bow out, withdraw

v. retire gracefully; "He bowed out when he realized he could no longer handle the demands of the chairmanship"

exit, go out, get out, leave

v. move out of or depart from; "leave the room"; "the fugitive has left the country"

retire

v. go into retirement; stop performing one's work or withdraw from one's position; "He retired at age 68"

weaken

v. become weaker; "The prisoner's resistance weakened after seven days"

birth, nativity, nascency, nascence

n. the event of being born; "they celebrated the birth of their first child"

be born

v. come into existence through birth; "She was born on a farm"

survive, pull through, pull round, come through, make it

v. continue in existence after (an adversity, etc.); "He survived the cancer against all odds"

begin, start

v. have a beginning, in a temporal, spatial, or evaluative sense; "The DMZ begins right over the hill"; "The second movement begins after the Allegro"; "Prices for these homes start at $250,000"

come to, revive, resuscitate

v. return to consciousness; "The patient came to quickly"; "She revived after the doctor gave her an injection"

better, improve, ameliorate, meliorate

v. get better; "The weather improved toward evening"

wear, hold out, endure

v. last and be usable; "This dress wore well for almost ten years"

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