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What is the noun for deceasing?

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deceased
  1. A dead person.
  2. (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.
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    1. “The deceased was found with multiple head injuries on a footpath after the two accused had left him.”
      “This is an extension of filial piety for the ancestors, the ultimate homage to the deceased as if they are alive.”
      “The Council will notify them when the time is right to move the deceased to the Burial Grounds.”
deceaser
  1. (law) One who deceases; a person who dies.
decease
decedent
  1. (law, chiefly US) A dead person.
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deceaseds
  1. plural of deceased
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  3. Examples:
    1. “This he finally succeeded in doing, but the deceaseds place was soon taken by others, who kept at poor Perkins until nightfall.”
      “Holloway and Haggerty then came up, and said they had done the trick, and as a token, put the deceaseds hat into my hand.”
      “Such manifest signs of guilt fully corroborated the deceaseds incriminating words.”
deceasers
  1. plural of deceaser
decedents
  1. plural of decedent
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The Mattaponi are decedents of Chief Powhatan, father of Pocahontas and ruler of large portions of what is now tidewater Virginia.”
      “We selected never smoking decedents and controls aged 60 years or over because there were few younger controls.”
      “We excluded hospitals with fewer than 100 decedents with data for physician claims, leaving 77 hospital cohorts.”
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