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Decease vs Expiration - What's the difference?

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Decease is a related term of expiration.


As nouns the difference between decease and expiration

is that decease is (formal) death while expiration is the act of expiring.

As a verb decease

is to die.

decease

English

Noun

(death) (-)
  • (formal) death
  • (obsolescent) Departure, especially departure from this life

    • Verb

    (deceas)
  • To die.
  • *, II.17:
    • After which usurped victorie, he presently deceased : and partly through the excessive joy he thereby conceived.

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    Usage notes

    The noun and verb forms are much less commonly used than the participial adjective "deceased," particularly outside formal, literary, or legal usage.

    expiration

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The act of expiring.
  • The act or process of breathing out, or forcing air from the lungs through the nose or mouth; as, respiration consists of inspiration and expiration; – opposed to inspiration.
  • Emission of volatile matter; exhalation.
  • The last emission of breath; death.
  • A coming to a close; cessation; extinction; termination; end.
  • That which is expired; matter breathed forth; that which is produced by breathing out, as a sound.

    • Usage note

    In most senses, mainly US; UK equivalent is expiry.