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passed away

ADJECTIVE

dead

Synonyms

STRONGEST

buried deceased late lifeless unalive

STRONG

cold departed stiff

WEAK

asleep bereft of life bloodless bought the farm breathless cadaverous checked out cut off defunct done for erased expired extinct gone gone to meet maker gone to reward liquidated no more not existing offed out of one's misery perished pushing up daisies reposing resting in peace

Antonyms

STRONGEST

alive living

WEAK

continuing enduring existent existing live undead warm

ADJECTIVE

departed

Synonyms

STRONGEST

deceased

STRONG

buried expired gone stiff

WEAK

bought the farm in the grave laid to rest late pushing up daisies six feet under

ADJECTIVE

nonexistent

Synonyms

STRONGEST

absent negative tenuous vacant

WEAK

airy baseless blank chimerical dead defunct departed dreamlike dreamy empty ethereal extinct extinguished fancied few and far between flimsy gone gossamery groundless hallucinatory hypothetical illusory imaginary imagined immaterial imponderable insubstantial legendary lost missing mythical null null and void passed on perished shadowy ungrounded unreal unsubstantial vague vaporous void without foundation

Antonyms

WEAK

actual existent existing real true

Example Sentences

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Meanwhile, Al Amin still counts the number of days since Akira passed away.

From BBC • May 27, 2026

Then just 15 minutes before the event began, organizers learned she had passed away.

From Los Angeles Times • May 23, 2026

My mother passed away and I am the beneficiary on her checking account.

From MarketWatch • May 19, 2026

Rhona Edwards's husband Alex passed away in November.

From BBC • May 19, 2026

She reaches for my hand and says quietly, Your Halmoni has passed away.

From "A Step from Heaven" by An Na