verb
pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
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She died from cancer
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The children perished in the fire
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The patient went peacefully
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The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102
• Syn:
↑die, ↑decease, ↑perish, ↑go, ↑exit, ↑pass away, ↑expire, ↑pass, ↑cash in one's chips, ↑buy the farm, ↑conk, ↑give-up the ghost, ↑drop dead, ↑pop off, ↑choke, ↑croak, ↑snuff it
• Derivationally related forms:
↑passing (for: ↑pass), ↑expiration (for: ↑expire), ↑exit (for: ↑exit), ↑going (for: ↑go), ↑decedent (for: ↑decease), ↑decease (for: ↑decease), ↑death (for: ↑die), ↑Death (for: ↑die)
• Hypernyms: ↑change state, ↑turn
• Hyponyms:
↑abort, ↑suffocate, ↑stifle, ↑asphyxiate, ↑buy it, ↑pip out, ↑drown, ↑predecease, ↑starve, ↑famish, ↑fall, ↑succumb, ↑yield
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• Verb Frames:
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Somebody ——s
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kick the bucket (slang)
To die (perh from dialect bucket a beam from which slaughtered animals are hung)
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Main Entry: ↑bucket
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kick the bucket see under ↑bucket
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Main Entry: ↑kick
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to die
Thesaurus: to die or to be killedsynonym
Main entry: kick
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Isee kick I
II
informal die
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Main Entry: ↑bucket
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kick the bucket
informal + somewhat old-fashioned : to die
He inherited the house after his uncle kicked the bucket.
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Main Entry: ↑kick
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kick the ˈbucket f3 idiom
Useful english dictionary. 2012.