How to pronounce “deceased”

Meaning

• [Adjective]
• No longer alive; dead.
• Belonging to the dead.
• (law) 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.
• (hyperbolic) Overwhelmed to the point of being figuratively dead.
• [Noun]
• (euphemistic) Synonym of dead (“those who have died”).
• (law) One who has died. In property law, the alternate term decedent is generally used in US English. In criminal law, “the deceased” refers to the victim of a homicide.

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