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  • verb Present participle of decease.

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Examples

  • Like our world, the population is slowly getting older and the number of workers to retirees is deceasing.

    Social Security Privatization, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • Something is opening the throttle and deceasing the effectiveness of the brakes keep in mind that the ABS system can release the brakes as it sees fit.

    Woman dies in speeding Toyota 2010

  • I was upstairs still working on my hamburger, not 10 minutes later, when I again heard that distinctive "snap" sound and, sure enough, when I ran out to the balcony overlooking the living room and fireplace and turned on the big light, there was another little sucker caught in the trap, also struggling to get out, also deceasing in my sight in a few seconds.

    Archive 2008-08-01 Jan 2008

  • This story reminds me of the ones that occasionally appear in the New York Times, expressing bafflement that violent crime is deceasing despite the fact that more people are in jail.

    Daimnation!: Situation improving; government expected to suffer 2008

  • I was upstairs still working on my hamburger, not 10 minutes later, when I again heard that distinctive "snap" sound and, sure enough, when I ran out to the balcony overlooking the living room and fireplace and turned on the big light, there was another little sucker caught in the trap, also struggling to get out, also deceasing in my sight in a few seconds.

    Friday Night Miscellany Jan 2008

  • I am sure this is still true, and there has been a long-term trend of NSF funding representing a deceasing proportion of UCAR/NCAR support, much to the dismay of some scientists.

    Inhofe, UCAR and NCAR « Climate Audit 2006

  • Sinaus and Truuor deceasing without issue, Rurek succeeded and left a sonne behinde him named Igor; who not being of sufficient yeres to beare rule, was committed vnto the protection of his kinsman Olechus.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • He gaue vnto his sonne Simeon the prouinces of Vvlodimiria and Moscouia: which Simeon deceasing without issue his brother Iohn succeeded, who begate a son called

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Of a certain Isle in Ireland, hauing a church and a parish in it, the inhabitants whereof deceasing are not buried in the earth, but like liuing men, do continually, against some banke or wall in the Churchyard, stand bolt-vpright: neither are they subiect to any corruption or downefall: insomuch that any of the posteritie, may there seeke for, and beholde their ancestors.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Of a certain Isle in Ireland, hauing a church and a parish in it, the inhabitants whereof deceasing are not buried in the earth, but like liuing men, do continually, against some banke or wall in the Churchyard, stand bolt-vpright: neither are they subiect to any corruption or downefall: insomuch that any of the posteritie, may there seeke for, and beholde their ancestors.

    A briefe commentarie of Island, by Arngrimus Ionas 2003

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